Stories
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
- Article
Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
- Article
Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Reference material 'Vol. XII' Pathology: Jacobson - Ziehen
Date: c.1900-1940Reference: PSY/SPE/2/24Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
Reference material 'Vol. XII Pathology A-H': Arnold - Hutt
Date: c.1900-1940Reference: PSY/SPE/2/23Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - Van Heyningen, W.E. April 1959
Date: 1959Reference: PP/EBC/B.110Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0001057 - C0001079
Date: 1999Reference: WT/B/11/1/28Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
History of Cervical Cancer Related Documents: Ian Duncan and Anne Johnson Papers
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1953-2009Reference: GC/253/A/38/8Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars