Stories
- Article
Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
- Article
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.
- Article
My rainforest upbringing
In the introduction to her serial, research biologist Nataly Allasi Canales charts the influences that led her to passion for preserving the species of the Peruvian Amazon, where she spent her childhood.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"A Sculptor in the Arctic Regions" by Albert Operti, cut from Shield's Magazine of Art
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7485/25Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 4
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1924 - 1930Reference: WF/M/GB/35/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 7
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1935 - 1940Reference: WF/M/GB/35/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd
- Pictures
- Online
Three balloons travel over a polar landscape: proposed method of reaching the North Pole by J.P. Cheyne. Coloured wood engraving by C. Roberts, 1877.
Date: [1877]Reference: 36393i- Archives and manuscripts
Henry Howgate (fl. 1878), proposer of what was to become the Greely expedition to Lady Franklin Bay
Date: 1880Reference: MS.7486/47-48Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection