Stories
- Article
Why the world needs collectors
Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.
- Article
Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
- Article
Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion
How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.
- Article
Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Moorland syrup of figs : a pleasant & safe aperient medicine suitable for children of all ages : for consumption, stomach & liver troubles : price 1/3 per bottle.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]- Videos
Mixing a bottle feed.
Date: 197?/198?
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0006968: Museum display case of perfume bottles and scents
Date: 15 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/63Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0008429: Medicine chest and bottles
Date: November 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/73/59Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Pictures
- Online
The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: an exhibit relating to wine, including a display of wine bottles. Photograph, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 572336iPart of: 1904 World's Fair (or Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis.