Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.
Records of private asylums have had an extremely poor survival rate compared with those in the public sector, which have had the benefits of statutory protection and a greater measure of continuity.
The costume of Great Britain / Designed, engraved, and written by W.H. Pyne.
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A woman being tortured by being strapped naked onto a horse and dragged through a town. Wood engraving after G. Durand. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
A penis with a patch of skin disease on the shaft; and female genitalia with a skin disease around the labia and vulva. Chromolithograph, c. 1888. Reference: 34905i ...
Licence: Public Domain Mark Credit: A penis with a patch of skin disease on the shaft; and female genitalia with a skin disease around the labia and vulva. Chromolithograph, c. 1888. Wellcome ...
Report on the influenza epidemic of 1889-90 / by Dr. Parsons.
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A 19th-century campaigner who condemned the practice of keeping a dead person at home before the funeral started a gradual trend for outsourcing the preparation and storage of a body. But as a ...
Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...
St James’s Gardens, a former burial ground next to London’s Euston Station, closed in summer 2017 for work on the new HS2 rail line. Removing the tens of thousands of bodies buried on the site ...
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