Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from ...

Join a BSL-interpreted tour of the ‘1880 THAT’ exhibition. A member of our Visitor Experience & Engagement team will guide you around the exhibition, exploring its themes and offering their personal ...

include personal details of living individuals be upsetting or distressing be explicit or graphic include objects and images of objects decontextualised in a way that is offensive to the originating ...

Wellcome is committed to ensuring that anybody that comes into contact with Wellcome Collection or its work is safe and protected from abuse and maltreatment of any kind. At Wellcome Collection, this ...

Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality. Dr Jana Funke reflects on her experiences of discussing sexology ...

Credit: Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor : 59th, 1904. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by a private collector for digitisation.

In the early 20th century, a new form of treatment for tuburculosis emerged in Europe and North America. Sanatoriums were a hybrid between a hospital and a resort, built to maximise patients’ exposure ...

When a woman discloses that she’s autistic, the reaction is often, “But you don’t look autistic,” or even a straight denial, “No you’re not.” This insightful and moving series of portraits and ...

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 ...

In the 20th century, doctors and nurses became sex symbols and romantic heroes and heroines as medical Mills & Boon novels grew and spread with the newly created NHS. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores the ...

The live spectacle of public surgery – and the origin of the operating ‘theatre’ – began with dissections for paying audiences in the 16th century. Lizzie Enfield uncovers the drama, and the ...

Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...