Stories
- In pictures
Dear Tooth Fairy
Once upon a time, people dreamed up the Tooth Fairy and, ever since, children have had lots of questions to ask her in their letters.
- Comic
The fairy bod-mother
The ball is for every body.
- Interview
Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing
James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.
- Article
The unexpected parallels between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Wellcome Collection
With the news of a sequel in development, Russell Dornan explores parallels between ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and Wellcome Collection.
![The history of the tales of the fairies / Newly done from the French. [Anon].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0069727/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Robin Goodfellow; a fairy tale. Written by a fairy. For the Amusement of All the pretty little Faies and Fairies in Great Britain and Ireland.
Fairy.Date: 1770- Books
- Online
A pretty riddle book, being a choice whetstone for the wit of young children, by Mr. Christopher Conundrum, Riddle Maker in Ordinary to the King and Queen of the Fairies. Adorned with cuts.
Conundrum, Christopher.Date: [1785?]- Books
- Online
The dramatic works of David Garrick, Esq. To which is prefixed A life of the author. In three volumes. ... . containing Lethe - The Lying Valet. - Miss in her Teens. - Romeo and Juliet. - Every Man in his Humour. - The Fairies. - Florizel and Perdita. Catharine and Petruchio.
Garrick, David, 1717-1779.Date: M,DCC,XCVIII. [1798]- Books
- Online
The history and description of the Isle of Man: viz. its antiquity, history, laws, customs, religion and manners of its inhabitants, its Animals, Minerals, Curious and Authentick Relations of Apparitions of Giants that have liv'd under the Castle Time immemorial. Likewise many Comical and Entertaining Stories of the Pranks play'd by Fairies, &c. The Whole carefully collected from Original Papers and Personal Knowledge, during near Twenty Years Residence there.
Waldron, George, 1690-1730?.Date: [1744]- Books
- Online
Round about our coal-fire: or Christmas entertainments. Containing, Christmas gambols, tropes, figures, etc. with Abundance of Fiddle-Faddle-Stuff; such as Stories of Fairies, Ghosts, Hobgoblins, Witches, Bull-Beggars, Rawheads and Bloody-Bones, Merry Plays, &c. for the Diversion of Company in a cold Winter-Evening, besides several curious Pieces relating to the History of old Father Christmas; setting forth what Hospitality has been, and what it is now. Very proper to be read in all Families. Adorn'd with many curious cuts.
Date: [1730?]