Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

Having experienced bouts of serious mental illness, Caroline Butterwick discovers that the new world of workplace wellbeing ...

How one of the most famous soda drinks in the world got its name from a traditional West African delicacy.

The costume worn by physicians attending plague patients is described by Jean Jacques Manget in his 'Traité de la peste', Geneva 1721: the gown was made of morocco leather, with underneath a skirt, ...

Credit: De la divulsion des épiphyses : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine présentée et soutenue le 23 juin 1866 / par Antoine-Théophile Cosseret. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material ...

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Rowntree, B. Seebohm (Benjamin Seebohm), 1871-1954.

For a drawing of this composition see record no. 10074 in this catalogue ...

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Credit: Die Morphiumsucht : eine Monographie : nach eignen Beobachtungen / von Eduard Levinstein. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of ...

Incest in the nineteenth century -- Medicine and the law weigh in -- Gonorrhea and incest break out -- Protecting fathers, blaming mothers -- Incest disappears from view -- Incest in the twentieth ...

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