Credit: The plague not contagious, or a dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The University of ...

Credit: Observations on the so-called remittent fever of children : and on the febrile state in general / by W.H. Day. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The ...

When will we find happiness? In this six-part serial, Kate Wilkinson pursues our experiences of happiness at different times in our lives: childhood, adolescence, youth, middle and old age. She asks ...

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There is so much official talk (and number crunching) about happiness and well-eing nowadays. But where is joy? Unlike happiness, joy is a word we don’t use much today. We may discern it, perhaps ...

For a long time, nobody talked about menopause, and there is little evidence in the historical record of how women would have experienced this life stage in the past, if they even lived long enough to ...

We are standing in front of a large book of prints. It includes black-and-white illustrations of the facial expressions drawn by the French painter Charles Le Brun. The illustrations capture different ...

Moving through the world, we are constantly engaging with our environment through our attention and emotions. Increasingly, as more people are living in built-up urban environments, we’re looking to ...

In this room you will walk through a series of monumental colour photographs of ancient forests in Japan and America. I travelled to the Hoh Rain Forest in Washington State, USA, in search of a place ...

We’re looking at one of the rarest and most precious objects in the Wellcome’s collection. It’s a folding almanac from the 15th century. It was designed to be a portable object that would have been ...

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