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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.

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Vivekananda’s journey

How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.

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Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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  • Mentally ill people at the Charité hospital sitting and looking at a piece of apparatus (camera?). Photogravure by C. Block after G. Moreau de Tours.
  • Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
  • Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
  • A deaf man being made fun of and shouted at by his friends. Drypoint by A. Casanova y Estorach, 1877.
  • A man vaccinating a child surrounded by its mother, family and other children waiting to be vaccinated. Process print after a lithograph (?) after a painting by L. Boilly, 1807.
  • A barber about to shave an unwilling client with anthropomorphic participants. Reproduction of a coloured lithograph by Y.G.
  • A country doctor comforting the mother of a sick child, who is in bed in the background. Mezzotint by J.A. Allais after P. Duval-Lecamus.
  • A young physician feeling the pulse of a young woman, a painting of two lovers in the background suggests her illness maybe lovesickness. Lithograph by L.E. Soulange-Teissier, 1850, after P.L.A.A. Terral.
  • A young physician feeling the pulse of a young woman, a painting of two lovers in the background suggests her illness maybe lovesickness. Lithograph by L.E. Soulange-Teissier, 1850, after P.L.A.A. Terral.
  • Napoléon I and Marie Louise with their new born son. Engraving by A. Godefroy after Adolphe Roehn.
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