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Sniffing glue and Scientology in the DrugScope archive

Academics on hallucinogenics, kids sniffing glue, and Scientologists recruiting drug users keen to kick the habit. Delve into Wellcome’s recently acquired DrugScope archive.

  • Article

Digitising Audrey

Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.

  • In pictures

Ten favourites from the stores

Books, sex workers’ cards, a bomb... the Retrieval Team gives us a glimpse behind the scenes.

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How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction

Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.

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  • [Cooper, Sir Astley Paston (1768-1841)] [archive material].
  • [Cooper, Sir Astley Paston (1768-1841)] [archive material].
  • [Cooper, Sir Astley Paston (1768-1841)] [archive material].
  • The human skeleton; 1493
  • Janus: Archives internationals pour l'histoire de la medecine
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Hall
  • Certificate from the chief medical officers...
  • Certificate from the chief medical officers...
  • Memoranda...primitive peoples
  • Memoranda...primitive peoples
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