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Come along to hear from an expert Conservator on how colour brought medieval manuscripts to life.

From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.

Come and hear Dr Richard Williams discuss his research on music and sound in Mughal India.

Join an online event introducing our Arabic manuscript collection and exploring the multi-layered histories folded within their pages.

Wellcome’s Adrian Plau shares some the stories behind the Asian palm-leaf manuscripts in our collections. He reveals how British colonialism impacted this special form of knowledge transmission and the challenges involved in unearthing each manuscript’s origins and historical journey to Wellcome Collection.

This British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali manuscript about Ayurvedic medicine.

With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.

When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.

The Hindu concept of darshan means “divine revelation”, but it’s also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Adrian Plau explains how one image in a Panjabi manuscript relates to darshan, and why it’s so striking.

Wellcome Collection, one of the world’s finest resources for the study of the social and cultural contexts of health, announces that it has been awarded Archive Service Accreditation, the UK standard for archive services.

The earliest surviving attempts to notate music date from the 10th century, and became increasingly precise and complex over the following millennium. Discover the visual beauty of music manuscripts through the ages, and how they help musicians interpret composers’ intentions.

There are clues in the margins of medieval manuscripts to suggest that disabled people in the past made long pilgrimages, and were helped on their journeys by mobility aids remarkably similar to those we have today.

Join Sonia Wigh as she shares her research on 17th and 18th century medico-sexual Persian manuscripts.

Our collections are an incredible resource for all kinds of research, whether you are an artist or writer looking for inspiration, an academic researcher, or just curious about something in our exhibitions.

This display features a rare medieval birth scroll and explores protective practices and beliefs around pregnancy, childbirth and infertility past and present.

Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.

Medieval illustrations often show blind people, sometimes with dogs. But working out whether these were actually guide dogs involves a mix of detailed detective work and expert speculation.

In this event, you’ll hear Dr Elma Brenner talk about medieval people's ambivalent relationship with water and you’ll see a selection of early manuscripts, early printed books and prints.

The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.

Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.