Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Credit: The human atmosphere, or, The aura made visible by the aid of chemical screens / by Walter J. Kilner. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A.

1 volume 8 ll., 13 ll. 4to. 19 × 151/2 cm., 23 × 18 cm. The original MS. is bound in blind-stamped morocco: the transcript is unbound. Pasted inside the upper cover is the armorial book-plate of [Sir] ...

Volume 2 Cours de microscopie complémentaire des études médicales ... / par Al. Donné.Alfred François Donné ...

M0016897: Portrait of Carlo Forlanini (1847-1918) / M0016898: Carlo Forlanini administering an artificial pneumothorax Date: May 1958 Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/152/12 ...

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In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...

show credit information for image 'Legacies of eugenics in school' Legacies of eugenics in school. © Gergo Varga (varrgo.com) for Wellcome Collection. When A-level ...

In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...

In the final year of the First World War a deadly pandemic spread rapidly around the world. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–19 infected up to a third of the world’s population and killed up to 100 ...

Some of us may remember hard toilet paper and shudder a little as we recall the shiny, smooth sheets. But there was a time when Brits proved difficult to convince of the benefits of soft toilet tissue ...

Characters travel back in time to challenge sexologists Marie Stopes, Sigmund Freud, Hirschfield and Henry Havelock Ellis and their ideas, many of which continue to shape society’s thinking about sex ...