Stories
- Article
Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
- Article
Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle
Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
- Online
Letter to the people of Laurencekirk, on occasion of presenting the King's charter, by which that village is erected into a free and independent Burgh of Barony. To which are subjoined, An abridgement of two Letters published by Sir Richard Cox, containing an account of the establishment and progress of industry in his village near Corke in Ireland;-The Guardian, No 9. ; - and, The clause of erection of Laurencekirk into a Burgh of Barony.
Gardenstone, Francis Garden, Lord, 1721-1793.Date: [1780]- Pictures
- Online
Figures strolling to and from the Industrial Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1862, after B. Sly.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 22 November 1862Reference: 17269i- Pictures
- Online
The Industrial Museum, Edinburgh: the facade, with visitors in the foreground. Wood engraving.
Reference: 17271i- Videos
Professor Regan's beauty parlour.
Date: 2007