Stories
- Article
Native Americans through the 19th-century lens
The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.
- Article
History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Recipe Book, 19th century, Cornwall
Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.7944- Archives and manuscripts
History 1 - Pioneers
Date: Late 19th century-mid 20th centuryReference: SA/MWF/C.1-5Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
Introduction of the western concept and practice of hygiene to Japan during the 19th century / Shun-Ichi Yamamoto.
Yamamoto, Shun-Ichi.Date: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Copies of plans, caricatures of staff (1918), photographs of sketches scratched on the windows of the psychiatric ward in the 19th cent., reports of activities at the Army Medical School 1906, and bye-laws, 1953, re Netley military land
Date: Mid 19th Century - mid 20th centuryReference: RAMC/801/7/3Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Ephemera
Clean and sparkling : soaps & detergents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 30 November - 27 February 1999 / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: 1998