Stories
- Article
Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
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The joys and failures of audio description
Audio description enhances the experience of watching a film or TV show for people with a visual impairment, but it's not widely available in the UK. Alex Lee explains why.
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
070601/Z/03/Z: Anatomy Lessons
Date: 2004Reference: WT/C/6/1/6Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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A woman seated on a obstetrical chair giving birth aided by a midwife who works beneath her skirts. Woodcut.
Reference: 16926i- Books
The smile stealers : the fine + foul art of dentistry / Richard Barnett.
Barnett, Richard, 1980-Date: 2017- Books
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Die Anatomie des Auges bei den Griechen und Römern / von Hugo Magnus.
Magnus Hugo, 1842-1907.Date: 1878- Books
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Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung nach ihrer Beziehung auf anatomische Wissenschaft und bildende Kunst / von Ludwig Choulant.
Date: 1852