Stories
- Article
How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
- Article
Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
- Article
The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Products (UK) - Advertising
Date: Early 20th CenturyReference: WF/M/PB/34/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Negatives - Dartford
Date: 1880s-1980sReference: WF/M/I/NDPart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
'Pioneer' Series of Advertisements
Date: 1919-1932Reference: WF/M/PB/34/02/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
'Pioneer' Series of Advertisements
Date: 1919-1932Reference: WF/M/PB/34/02/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Files of correspondence and papers relating to H.C. Hunt, A Retired Habitation. A History of The Retreat, York (London 1932)
Date: 1928 - 1945Reference: RET 1/10/2/25Part of: The Retreat Archive