Stories
- Article
Surviving as an asexual person in a heteronormative world
Experiencing no sexual attraction led Seleena Laverne Daye to feel she was somehow failing as an adult. But she found a way to claim her identity and to thrive.
- Article
Six personal health zines that might change your life
Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.
- Article
A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
- Article
Sick of the theatre
What makes the stage a good place to share real-life experiences of ill health?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Red Cross Convalescent Hospital for Wounded British Soldiers at Harrow: Personal Narratives by patients for Report, 1915-1917'.
Date: 1915-1917Reference: GC/20/3Part of: Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Copies of Extracts from the Personal Diary of N G Heatley, 1939-1942
Date: 1970sReference: PP/NHE/C/1/4Part of: Heatley, Norman George, OBE (1911- 2004)- Books
- Online
Wonderful adventures : a series of narratives of personal experiences among the native tribes of America.
Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]- Archives and manuscripts
Copies of diary extracts 3 Jul-15 Dec 1941
Date: 1970sReference: PP/NHE/C/1/4/3Part of: Heatley, Norman George, OBE (1911- 2004)- Archives and manuscripts
Complete Copy of diary: 2 November 1942 - 15 April 1942
Date: c. 1970sReference: PP/NHE/C/1/4/6Part of: Heatley, Norman George, OBE (1911- 2004)