Being an archivist is sometimes a strange profession, spanning a range of worlds. Your training can include instruction in Tudor handwritin...

Europ.In is a lovely web application that gives a Pinterest-like view of some of the Wellcome Library's more visually interesting ma...

Two new Insight talks, designed to highlight the breadth of the Library's collections, are coming up in October: 'Ancient Medic...

The BBC reports the death earlier today of the actor Herbert Lom , who played the police chief in the Pink Panther films. His many other ro...

Wellcome Library no. 70i Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (left) discovered X-rays through a combination of accident and experiment in December 18...

This week, Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 featured a discussion between Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist, Wellcome Library and author Li...

Sick City Talks are a new series of podcasts on the history, literature, art and science of medicine in London, devised by Wellcome Trus...

The memento mori pictures in the Wellcome Library range from complex and learned allegories to popular works which encourage their owners t...

Is there life on other planets, and will we ever discover another world with a biodiversity as rich as that found on Earth? NASA’s Curi...

This Saturday, September 8th, graphic designer, photographer and blogger extraordinaire Joanna Ebenstein opens her legendary "Congress ...

What did it mean to be ill in the past?  How was illness understood and how were patients treated?  Drawing on the rich holdings both in t...

Experience some of our books through the senses of touch and smell this Thursday 6th September, 3-4pm  as Jo Maddocks offers her popular ...

Dr Katherine Foxhall is a Wellcome Trust Fellow based at King’s College London. She is currently writing a social history of migraine, lo...

For many in this country, the end of August traditionally marks the end of the summer holidays, as children return to school and parents ret...

A current exhibition at the V&A Museum in London, The Silent Traveller in Britain, 1933-1955 , explores the work of the Chinese artist...