Stories
- Article
The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
- 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
Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
- Article
Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’
All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Recipe Book, 18th and 19th Century
Date: late 18th century to early 19th centuryReference: MS.7978- Archives and manuscripts
Jackson - Knutsford
Date: late 19th century - mid 20th centuryReference: PP/ESS/B.39Part of: Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935)- Archives and manuscripts
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Photograph album
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: WA/HSW/PH/EPart of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Pictures
A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) defending the peoples of the world by spraying flies with a spray gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.
Date: [193?-?]Reference: 676494i- Pictures
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The interior of the Dublin Exhibition Palace, Ireland. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1865, after A.G. Jones.
Hodgkin, W. E., active 1853-1879.Date: 22 April 1865Reference: 16877i