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The father of handwashing

Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.

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Photographs as evidence of gender identity and sexuality

Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality.

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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies

Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.

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  • With the compliments of Evans Medical Supplies Ltd : Speke. Liverpool 19 & 50 Bartholomew Close. London EC1.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the stairs in the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the stairwell in the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, May 1932, before occupation. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Egyptian Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c.1939].
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as arranged in the 1930s. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as arranged in the 1930s. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as arranged in the 1930s. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: looking through the Primitive Medicine Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1939].
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: statues and display cases of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in the north-east end of the second floor. Photograph.
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