Stories
- Book extract
The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
- Article
Belonging, babies and self-belief
As a first-time mother living abroad, it seemed too exhausting to truly connect with new acquaintances. Instead, Tanya Perdikou began to make a kind of peace with herself.
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Families fighting for justice
In 1962 a group of parents whose children had been affected by thalidomide began a decades-long battle in the law courts, the media and Parliament in order to win fair justice for all thalidomide survivors.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000156: Lump of iron pyrite, believed to be a thunderbolt
Date: 19 July 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/3/29Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph by L. Bump, 1826, after J. Lump.
Lump, J.Date: September 1826Reference: 744161i- Audio
Lumps in the skin.
Solomons, Bethel.Date: 1960- Audio
Lumps in the skin.
Solomons, Bethel.Date: 1960- Audio
Lumps in the skin.
Solomons, Bethel.Date: 1960