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.
Our building has step-free access. Exhibitions include audio description, British Sign Language and captions. show credit information for image 'John lying on a hospital bed, chatting' ‘Tenderness and ...
You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. Read more about this licence. "[Sir James Edward] Smith wrote the descriptions, except those for pls. 16-18 by George ...
Credit: West Riding Lunatic Asylum : medical reports / edited by J. Crichton Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by UCL Library Services. The original may be ...
Africanus Horton Road runs through the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. My dad studied medicine here before graduating at the tender age of 21 (he was something of a child prodigy). He then moved to ...
At the age of 22 I found myself in an airless, dreary and packed family court in India. My violent and abusive marriage was coming to an end. My husband couldn’t stand the fact that I was an ...
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 ...
show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...
We think of assistive technology as something modern, and that people with mobility issues in the past were limited to their locality or confined within their homes. But there are clues in the ...
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 ...
Friendly societies were a way for like-minded people to form social networks and pool their resources to support each other in times of need. Their success also made them a significant healthcare ...
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