Stories
- Article
Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
- Article
Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
- Article
A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
- Article
The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Hill, Norman Walter (1852-c.1920), collector
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7044- Archives and manuscripts
Christophers, Sir (Samuel) Rickard, CIE, OBE, FRS (1873-1978), protozoologist and expert in tropical medicine
Christophers, S. R. (Samuel Rickard), 1873-1978.Date: 20th centuryReference: GC/161- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Edith How-Martyn: notes for talks etc
Date: 20th centuryReference: PP/EPR/A.3Part of: Eileen Palmer: collection of material on birth control, including papers of Edith How-Martyn and Olive Johnson- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Photograph album
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: WA/HSW/PH/EPart of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Pictures
Hélène Edlund.
Axel Eliassons Konstförlag.Date: [20th century]Reference: 3308123iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.