Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Stories

  • Article

How slums make people sick

A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.

  • Article

The tower in fiction, film and life

The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.

  • Article

Building a dream in the garden suburbs

In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.

  • Article

Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

All stories (12)

Images

  • Baths of Cracalla, Rome, seen from N-E, restored. Reproduction from Sir Banister Fletchers book 'History of Arcchitecture on the comparative methods', 7th edition, 1924.
  • Academy or university, Portugal or Brazil: elevation. Etching.
  • Memorials of Cambridge: a series of views of the colleges, halls, and public buildings / engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • Women representing architecture and astronomy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1803, after R. Corbould.
  • A French physician on his rounds with his entourage. Etching by J. Caldwell, 1771, after M. Brandoin.
  • Marsa, Malta: view of the island and surroundings. Etching by A. Benoist after J. Goupy, c. 1725.
  • A French physician on his rounds with his entourage. Etching by J. Caldwell, 1771, after M. Brandoin.
  • Marsa, Malta: view of the island and surroundings. Etching by A. Benoist after J. Goupy, c. 1725.
  • A young man removing a bandage from his hand, while an old woman offers him another; representing the sense of touch. Etching by G. Greux after D. Teniers.
All images (61)

Catalogue

All works (665)

Events

  • Walking tour

Somers Town, a Social Laboratory

Online
Past
All events (1)