As work progresses in line with the Library's Digitisation programme , Content And Metadata Officer Rada Vlatkovic discusses her work as...

In our fourth post from Year 9 at Little Ilford School, Anisa, Sadia and Tasnim investigate the history of microscopy: ‘Last month our...

Library Assistant Anna Ostrowska shares with us some of her research for her recent Wellcome Library Insight Session . With current home b...

In our latest posting from the Science Club, Rebekah and friends report on a day in the Wellcome exploring X-rays: 'On Wednesday 18 Ap...

Since 2011, as part of the Preservation and Conservation team, I have been focusing on the preparation of items from the Wellcome Library f...

This Thursday (31st May), Ross MacFarlane (Research Engagement Officer, Wellcome Library) and Paolo Viscardi (Curator, Horniman Museum)...

Brian Hursey was an international expert on the control of tsetse flies , the vector of African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” i...

Amongst other causes for celebration, 2012 marks the 125th anniversary of the Queen’s Nursing Institute , founded in 1887 by Queen Victori...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the withdrawal of the drug thalidomide from the market. A number of events are planned to coin...

In the second post from our Year 9 friends at Little Ilford School, here are Edward and Farzana reflecting on their visit and the four humou...

The distinguished malariologist Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt (1907-1989) summed up the feelings of many of his contemporaries when, in 1986, h...

Contemporary is a word not often associated with archives and yet without archivists making plans for contemporary material the archives o...

To mark the first international Fascination of Plants Day , May's Item of the Month features one of the most important historical herbal...

We recently had the pleasure of sharing our Special Collections with Year 9 students from Little Ilford School in Newham as part of a scien...

Women at the forefront of medical science, health inequalities, and medical archaeology might not be obvious subjects for poetry, but all t...