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Photographs as evidence of gender identity and sexuality

Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality.

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Disability, education and prejudice

In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.

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Conflicted and confused about lithium

Covid-19 left Laura Grace Simpkins out of work and living back with her parents. She now had time to restart her research into her medication, but was she mad to continue?

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Reversing the psychiatric gaze

Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.

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  • The Wellcome Institute of Medical Research, Otago
  • Medical Research Institute, Accra: medical researchers working on yellow fever. Photograph, 1928.
  • National Institute of Medical Research: the staff. Photograph, 1940.
  • National Institute for medical Research: Hampstead.
  • Medical Research Institute, Accra: disinfection with a spray from a tank. Photograph, 1928.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the stairs in the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the stairwell in the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Egyptian Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c.1939].
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, May 1932, before occupation. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as arranged in the 1930s. Photograph.
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