Stories

We tell stories about health and human experience. Our words and pictures make connections, provoke new thinking and share lived experiences.

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Wetland

In this episode, JC and her contributors invite you to rethink the idea of of boggy marshlands, and see the ecological health, biodiversity, and carbon capturing benefits of these misunderstood spaces.

Part of The Root of the Matter

  • In pictures

Stories of Asian palm-leaf manuscripts

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.

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Slow and steady

With the right tools, things get easier, but that doesn’t mean they’re easy.

Part of Neurodivergent Navigations

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  • Serial
Part3

Woodland

In this episode, JC delves into the contradictions in our relationship with woodlands, and explores different ways we can think about them, if we are to use and protect them more wisely.

Part of The Root of the Matter

  • In pictures

Measure for measure?

From censuses to smartwatches, Ross MacFarlane shows how we have tracked health across the centuries.

Hoard

Georgie Evans’s weekly visits to her grandma’s means she knows what never throwing anything away looks like. In this series, she attempts to understand why Grandma needed to surround herself with so much stuff, and why hoarding behaviour can be difficult to define and discuss.

Books

Get stuck into one of our books, and explore the complexities of the human condition.

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Pageantry of self-love

Sometimes, self-love can feel exhausting.

Part of Neurodivergent Navigations

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  • Serial
Part2

Farmland

Fruit and vegetables link our hungry bodies to the world of plants. Yet many of us have little understanding of the farming industry and the impact that bringing crops to our plates has on the planet.

Part of The Root of the Matter

  • Article

The healing power of the physic garden

Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.

Part of Inside Our Collections

  • Comic

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Even more bonus points if your answer remains “all of the above”!

Part of Neurodivergent Navigations

  • Podcast
  • Serial
Part1

The Garden

We explore ideas of belonging and colonial legacies, guerrilla gardening in response to a tragic event, and the link between an urban nature reserve and a GP’s surgery.

Part of The Root of the Matter

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The 200-year search for normal people

Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.

Part of Inside Our Books

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