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From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.

Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.

The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.

In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

It could be mild, an almost poetic longing. Or it could be visceral, deep, an overwhelming feeling that eats into your everyday life. Come with Gail Tolley as she introduces a deep dive into homesickness.

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

A new survey commissioned by Wellcome Collection to explore people’s attitudes towards the physical experience of touch launches on BBC Radio 4.

Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.

Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

This policy defines Wellcome Collection's processes and standards for lending and acts as a guide to borrowers about our loans processes.