Stories
- Article
Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph
In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.
- Article
Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
A map of a portion of Central Africa by Dr. Livingstone from his own surveys, drawings and observations (London: John Murray, n.d.).
Date: mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: MS.7856/22Part of: Roche, Eleazer Birch (1848-1930), general practitioner and homoeopath- Archives and manuscripts
Hill, Norman Walter (1852-c.1920), collector
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7044- Archives and manuscripts
Miscell
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/09/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Photograph album
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: WA/HSW/PH/EPart of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Archives and manuscripts
Ticks
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/02/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd