Stories
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Crime drama and the realistic cadaver
Today we are accustomed to the increasingly realistic look of dead bodies in on-screen dramas. Special-effects expert Hildegunn M S Traa reveals how crime and morgue scenes reflect the social idea of death.
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Befriending heavy breathers
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.
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Collecting pandemic stories
Find out how personal notebook jottings from two flatmates became ‘Journals of a Pandemic’, a comprehensive diary-keeping project encompassing dozens of writers from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
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I-M-Hotep, Egyptian god of the physicians, silver statuette.
- Digital Images
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I-M-Hotep, Egyptian god of the physicians, silver statuette.
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006658: Drawing of Eusthenopteron Foordi
Date: 27 March 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/56/33Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Journals
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- Archives and manuscripts
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M0002421: Dr. John Coakley Lettsom's Villa, Camberwell Grove, Surrey.
Date: 23 October 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/20/84Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive