Stories
- Article
Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- 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
Virtual reality and the fix of the future
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Reprint from Science (vol.xx, no.506: Sept. 1904): "Ancient Natural History Lore", by C.R. Eastman
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7044/4/28Part of: Hill, Norman Walter (1852-c.1920), collector- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0007934 - C0010148
Date: 1999-c.2001Reference: WT/B/11/1/35Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
The history of emotions : an introduction / Jan Plamper ; translated by Keith Tribe.
Plamper, Jan, 1970-Date: 2015- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Books
Science in the archives : pasts, presents, futures / edited by Lorraine Daston.
Date: [2017]