Stories
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
- Article
The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
A rat eating; bodies of dead rats; laying of rat poison: campaign against rats in Sudan. Colour lithograph, 1976.
Date: [1976?]Reference: 979850i- Archives and manuscripts
Patzig - Phillis
Date: 1950-1988Reference: PP/MLV/C/16/5Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Pictures
A rat pierced by a stake against a white, blue and pink background: campaign against rats in Kuwait. Colour lithograph, 1979.
Date: [1979?]Reference: 979882i- Pictures
Men laying rat poison in a rat's nest; and a pile of dead rats: campaign against rats in Sudan. Colour lithograph, 1976.
Date: 1976Reference: 978276i