On Wednesday, 21st November, visitors to the Wellcome Library website will notice that we’ve made some changes. We’ve given the whole site ...

Update your bookmarks and blog rolls, and redirect your RSS reader - our blog is moving! After four years and more than 900 blog posts on ...

Thanks to everyone who has been in touch over the past fortnight with your thoughts on our redevelopment plans . We can now confirm the ...

 Dame Honor Fell at the Strangeways Laboratory There has recently been increasing interest in recovering the history of women in sci...

A new academic seminar series organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Libra...

Marek Kohn is the author of such titles as Turned out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the World Heats Up (2010),  A Reason for...

Monday 19 November 2012, The British Library Conference Centre, 10.00 – 16.00 Hosted by the ESRC-funded NOVELLA (Narratives of Varied E...

Join us for this Thursday's free Insight talk , exploring the documentation of Native American peoples in the 19th and early 20th cen...

Dr Shane McCorristine is a Marie Curie Fellow (COFUND, Irish Research Council) at NUI Maynooth and University of Cambridge. McCorristine is...

The Wellcome Library's exhibition of photographs of China taken by John Thomson between 1869 and 1872 is currently on show at The Hunt...

The new spiral staircase, part of our development plans announced today. Copyright Wilkinson Eyre. When Wellcome Collection opened i...

  The Wellcome Library was honoured to receive a visit yesterday from staff of the Kuwait Digital Repository at the Kuwait Institute for...

Two closely-related archives on population control have recently been catalogued and are now available to researchers at the Wellcome Librar...

The preservation of hard documentary evidence about the past is what we archivists strive towards constantly.  But just for once, allow this...

Roy Porter (1946-2002) is justifiably recognised as the most influential historian of medicine of his generation.  However, despite...

Carlos Paton Blacker or ‘Pip’ as he was more commonly known by his closer contacts, was a psychiatrist and eugenicist who played a crucia...

MS.8826 A recent manuscript acquisition highlights the importance of dance to health provision for women in the 1930s. Not as health-pro...