Stories
- Photo story
‘My Hair Is Not…’
Eight Black people talk about their relationship with their hair – their hairstyle history, their experiences, and how they decided to have natural hair.
- Photo story
My body, my hair
To depilate or not to depilate? Farah Esset and Eden Rickson share a collection of personal pictures and stories that explore the intimate interplay between body hair and identity.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- Article
Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
Catalogue
- Books
Concerning beards : facial hair, health and practice in England 1650-1900 / Alun Withey.
Withey, AlunDate: 2021- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
- Online
Commentatio de examine physiologico organi visus et systematis cutanei / Joannes Evangelista Purkinje.
Purkyne Jan Evangelista, 1787-1869.Date: [1823]- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0001300 - C0001380
Date: 2000Reference: WT/B/11/1/29Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Ephemera
Young and beautiful : advertising & packaging beauty products 1890-1990 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 1 June - 25 September / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: [1999]