Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Book extract
The psychology of Ouija
Explore the science behind table tilting and Ouija boards, and discover how the unscrupulous still make money from exploiting the ‘ideomotor’ effect.
- Article
Care, creativity and a connected world
Find out about the challenges Wellcome Collection has faced during the last very demanding year.
- Article
Rose Mackenberg’s deceptive activism
Discover how a New York private investigator became part of Houdini’s mission to expose the fraudulent mediums making money from their vulnerable, grieving clients.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
FB Power, Sites - overseas, staff, Wandsworth, Wellcome Building / staff, In Pursuit of Excellence; Founders (Henry Solomon Wellcome); Frederick Belding Power.
Date: c.1900-c.1985Reference: WF/M/I/PR/Z2Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Saint Sebastian. Process print, 190-.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]Reference: 2045868iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
Three books of occult philosophy or magic / by...Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim...Book one-Natural magic; which includes the early life of Agrippa, his seventy-four chapters on natural magic, new notes, illustrations, index, and other original and selected matter ; edited by Willis F. Whitehead. By direction of the Brotherhood of magic: The magic mirror, a message to mystics, containing full instructions on its make and use.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.Date: 1898- Books
The amphitheatre engravings of Heinrich Khunrath / translated by Patricia Tahil ; edited by Adam McLean.
Khunrath, Heinrich, 1560-1605.Date: 1981- Books
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Gleanings of antiquities. Containing, I. An essay for explaining the creation and the deluge, according to the sense of the Gentiles. In a Letter to a Learned Person. II. A discourse of oracles, giving an account of the Sibylline oracles; with an uncommon explication of Virgil's fourth eclogue, and some other Parts of his Works relating to them. To which is Added, An Account of the Oracles delivered at Delphos, and in the other Temples of the Gentiles; and of the Rise and Cessation of Oracles, both among the sews and Gentiles. III. Some notes concerning familiar spirits. By John Beaumont, Gent.
Beaumont, John, -1731.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]