Communicating with hand signs has a long history. Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe ...

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

Remedies for the wrongs of women / published by order of the Committee of the Associate Institution, for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women.

Credit: Schola medicinae; or, the new universal history and school of medicine / translated into English from the original Latin and Greek edition, by William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Credit: First [-Second] report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and populous districts. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by London ...

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 ...

show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.

How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...

show credit information for image 'Phallic object, large plaster female figure.' Alfred Charles Kinsey once said that a nymphomaniac is “someone who has more sex than you do”, and Kinsey was a man who ...

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, ...

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 ...

show credit information for image 'Sex work, stigma and whorephobia' Sex work, stigma and whorephobia. © Jessa Fairbrother for Wellcome Collection. Some years ago ...