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Over 800,000 pages of archival material from psychiatric hospitals in the UK will be digitised and made freely available online.

'Regarding Forests'  is a a multi-sensory installation within the Grade I listed North Wing at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the City of London. It is part of Wellcome Collection's 'On Happiness' season.

Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.

In this peaceful and restorative installation in St Bartholomew’s Hospital's North Wing, artist Chrystel Lebas offers staff, patients and the public an immersive experience of the rainforest.

Moya Lothian-McLean asks: when was the last time you felt utterly tranquil?

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.

Bored during lockdown, David Jesudason started bin diving at night. Then a chance discovery set him on a new path: to tell the story of a forgotten female surgeon.

Exploring how the experience of mental illness have been shaped over centuries and what the future might hold.

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

In May 2022, Wellcome Collection opens ‘In the Air’, a new exhibition exploring our relationship with air and what it tells us about the health of our planet.

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.