Stories
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
- Article
Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
- Article
Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
[Central America]
Date: 1879Reference: WA/HSW/PH/B.1Part of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Archives and manuscripts
Central America
Date: May 1964-Jul 1964Reference: PP/RRM/A.5/2Part of: Macintosh, Sir Robert (1897-1989)- Archives and manuscripts
Central America: account of native Americans of Darien, by Emanuel Cardenas
Date: c.1852Reference: PP/HO/D/D177Part of: Hodgkin family- Archives and manuscripts
South & Central America
Date: 1965-1988Reference: SA/DRS/JPart of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
"Visit to Central America"
Date: 1968Reference: WF/C/E/05/65/8Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd