Stories
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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].
Date: 1906- Archives and manuscripts
Extract from 'A History of the British Chemical Industry', by Stephen Miall.
Date: [1940]Reference: WF/M/H/01/18Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between A Rahman and J B S Haldane
Date: Feb 1948 - Mar 1948Reference: HALDANE/3/3/1/4/1Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
General Correspondence
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2016Reference: GC/253/A/59/1Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Ephemera
Pharmacy labels : a selection from the Wellcome Ephemera Collection : 30 July - 30 November 2002 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the Wellcome Library / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: 2002