Stories
- In pictures
Harnessing the power of baubles and bling
From hairpins that ward off evil to anklets that alter the way you walk, there’s a lot more to wearing jewellery than simply showing off.
- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
- Article
When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
- Article
Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Prehistoric material'
Date: 1936-1939Reference: WA/HMM/TR/Pre/A.13Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Prehistoric demography / Stig Welinder.
Welinder, Stig.Date: 1979- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Prehistoric Society
Date: 1955Reference: PP/AEM/H.17Part of: Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)- Books
Prehistoric England / [Grahame Clark].
Clark, Grahame, 1907-1995.Date: [1941]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Prehistoric Society'
Date: 1947-1952Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Chr/J.205Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library