Stories
- 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.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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
Ticks
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/02/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
- Online
The global coffee economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989 / edited by William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Steven Topik.
Date: [2003], ©2003