Stories
- Article
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- Article
A nose through Blythe House
Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.
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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Appliances Trade Catalogues for Hawksley and Sons, Surgical Appliances and Instrument Makers, Oxford Street, London
Hawksley & Sons, Surgical Appliances and Instrument Makers (est.1869) of Oxford Street, London.Date: c.1882-c.1910Reference: MSS.8732-8737- Archives and manuscripts
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Sales catalogue 936: Tregaskis
Date: March 1927Reference: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/22/58Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Handlist of scientific instrument-makers' trade catalogues 1600-1914 / R.G.W. Anderson, J. Burnett and B. Gee.
Anderson, R. G. W. (Robert Geoffrey William)Date: 1990- Archives and manuscripts
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Sales catalogue: Robinson, Williams & Burnands
Date: 24 February - 25 February 1915Reference: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/200Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
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Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards
Date: 1963Reference: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/53Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library