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Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.

In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.

Sex workers who report crimes against them can face a “what do you expect?” attitude. But one organisation is working to protect vulnerable people in the sex industry.

In this abridged extract from Helen King’s book ‘Immaculate Forms’, she unfurls the floral imagery historical writers used to refer to the clitoris.

Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.

Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women’s bodies from classical Greece to the modern day.

Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.

In September 2024, Wellcome Collection will present ‘Hard Graft’ a free major exhibition exploring experiences of physical work and its impacts on health and the body.

Chubby little winged boys known as putti frequently adorn scientific illustrations. Sometimes portrayed as reverent and sometimes cheeky, they guide our pursuit of knowledge.

While his sense of body shame meant the personal side of his life was unfulfilled, Chris’s career was rewarding. His own childhood experiences gave him profound empathy for the children he worked with.

A serious health scare was the catalyst to Chris beginning the process of understanding his experiences more clearly, and using that new insight to help other intersex people.

“Over the coming months and across our programme, Wellcome Collection will be asking important questions about the role of museums and collections across time in relation to power, knowledge and representation.”

The first major exhibition exploring the relationship between graphic design and health will open at Wellcome Collection in September 2017.

Sometimes men just don’t like football. Writer and teacher Okechukwu Nzelu decides to be himself in front of his students.

Step inside Anne Frank’s house or explore the galleries in a museum destroyed by fire. VR brings history and art satisfyingly close when we’re unable to get there in person.

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

Wellcome Collection presents the first major exhibition exploring the relationship between graphic design and health.

Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.