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Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.

From gymnastics to splints and uterine massage, the history of physiotherapy takes in a surprisingly broad range of people and practices.

Explore the new exhibition '1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader' with audio description.

Discover how artist Liz Atkin has channelled the compulsion to pick her skin into an imaginative outlet for her feelings.

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 our collections.

Meet some of the lesser-known but no less extraordinary figures in the history of medicine, through a series of original portraits.

How did drag develop from light-hearted female impersonation to a world-dominating art form?

Air ballooning is not as serene as you might think. Read about the perilous exploits of two early aeronauts who risked life and limb to better understand the science of the weather.

What is the ideal pillow? In Chinese culture, the ideal shifted over time, and views on a good sleep also reveal attitudes about studying, love, food and drink.

Posters by artists who turned their art into activism to support their communities and raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

We love our festive pine cones and poinsettias, but what else are we inviting in with them?

This British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali manuscript about Ayurvedic medicine.

In honour of the animal’s heroic efforts, here are some favourites from our collection.

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

The AIDS public health poster campaign chose print even in the internet age and dealt with issues of identity and behaviour like never before.

Now one of the most popular forms of exercise, the health-giving properties of swimming have not always been recognised. Dive into a gallery that charts the course from water as site of danger to a space of health.

Explore how ideas about masculinity have influenced the way men talk about and experience their mental health, from the 1800s to today.

The relationship between dogs and humans goes back a long way. These pictures from our archives show some of the highs and lows.