Stories
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- Article
The quest to breed gifted children
If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?
- Article
Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Letter Book, S M Burroughs & Co
Date: 14 February - 8 December 1879Reference: WF/E/02/04/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
- Online
History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood / by Thomas Bewick.
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.Date: 1847- Books
The alchemy of beauty : an entirely new series of beauty culture products prepared with the freshly expressed juices of living plants and flowers exposed to the ultra violet rays of sunlight and compounded to the recipes of the most famous foreign and continental beauty specialists and dermatologists... / Hancock & Co., Ltd.
J. Hancock and Co.Date: [1932]- Books
- Online
Reports on the operations of the inspectors and relief agents of the Sanitary Commission after the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 / by J.H. Douglas and C.W. Brink.
Douglas, John Hancock, 1824-1892.Date: 1863- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Booksellers, English G-H'
Date: 1932-1953Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Sub/9Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library