Stories
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- Article
Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 9
Date: February 1902 - May 1902Reference: WF/E/03/09Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 9
Date: February 1902 - May 1902Reference: WF/E/03/09 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 9
Date: February 1902 - May 1902Reference: WF/E/03/09 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 10
Date: May 1902 - October 1902Reference: WF/E/03/10Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 10
Date: May 1902 - October 1902Reference: WF/E/03/10 (Copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd