Stories
- Article
Finding out where my lithium comes from
The origins of the lithium Laura Grace Simpkins swallows daily are unclear. If we don’t know the provenance of our pills, how can we make informed decisions about them?
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Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001897EA: Two panoramic photographs depicting Aqua Claudia, ("the Claudian water"), an ancient Roman aqueduct that was one of nine which supplied Rome in A.D. 38 / M0001897EB: Landscape showing the breeding places for mosquitoes, as places where malaria may be transmitted, in London
Date: 22 May 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/17/87Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Travel and landscape
Date: 1905-c.1930Reference: WA/HSW/PH/CPart of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Archives and manuscripts
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[Tour of Portugal and Spain]
Date: 1908Reference: WA/HSW/PH/C.4Part of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Archives and manuscripts
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[Spain]
Date: 1910Reference: WA/HSW/PH/C.7Part of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Archives and manuscripts
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[Cars]
Date: 1911, c.1930Reference: WA/HSW/PH/C.8Part of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)