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First Wellcome Trust open access book looks at history of fungal disease
Earlier this year, the Wellcome Trust extended its open access policy to include monographs and scholarly publications, and today our first open access monograph is published, a history of fungal...
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Shedding light on this history of phototherapy
With the long, dark days of winter upon us, sunlight seems like a distant dream – but Wellcome Trust Research Fellow Dr Tania Woloshyn is absorbed with light. Researching the history of light therapy,...
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Image of the Week: Amputation
This looks like a horrifying suggestion for DIY surgery – using a hammer and a chisel-like object to amputate a big toe – but it’s actually an illustration from an 18th century medical dictionary....
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Image of the Week: Leech jar
This decorated pottery jar, made by Samuel Alcock and Co, was once used to store leeches in a pharmacy before they were sold to physicians. Historically leeches were used thought to cure all sorts of...
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Image of the Week: Artificial Eyes
Q: What connects Shakespeare, Sammy Davies Junior and Nick Griffin? A: Artificial eyes, as featured in this Image of the Week. Shakespeare wrote of them in King Lear – “get thee glass eyes; and, like...
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Research Spotlight: Prof Daniel Pick
Professor Daniel Pick holds a senior investigator award from the Wellcome Trust and is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a qualified psychoanalyst and Fellow of...
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From Torture to Treatment: One Man’s Fight to Revolutionise Mental Health...
Wellcome Trust funded researcher Professor John Foot spent two years exploring the history of revolutionary psychiatrist Franco Basaglia. Basaglia’s views on the treatment of psychiatric patients...
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Image of the Week: Dissection
This week’s image of the week is interesting for a number of reasons. At first glance, it looks like a delicate antique fan that might keep you cool in the heat of summer, but in reality it is...
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Reality behind research: 21 years of oral history with Wellcome Witness
Thousands of scientific papers are published every year, reporting on interesting results, but the standard format – introduction, materials and methods, results, conclusions, references – leaves...
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Global Health Histories Explores Antimicrobial Resistance and 20th Century...
Earlier this year a report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that resistance to common antimicrobial drugs has reached alarming levels, with fewer and fewer effective treatment options...
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Image of the Week: Glycerine and Cucumber
In our image of the week this week, Carly Dakin looks at how to achieve soft, smooth complexion free from redness – the 19th century way. Just reach for “the queen of toilet preparations for all...
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Pathways of resistance: from mercury to methicillin
In a climate of rising fear over the diminishing efficacy of antibiotics, Wellcome-supported microbiologists have looked back at the bacteria-killing substances of the pre-antibiotic era – toxic...
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A Brief History of Childbirth: Exploring the National Childbirth Trust Archives
The Wellcome Library is a treasure trove of books and archives than span a wealth of biomedical and health related subjects. The newly-catalogued National Childbirth Trust (NCT) archive, containing...
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Image of the Week: a ‘Movember’ special
This week’s image of the week is a ‘Movember’ special, celebrating Henry Wellcome’s moustache through the ages.* From a questionable goatee in the 1880s to a more restrained turn of the century ‘tache,...
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Researcher Spotlight: Louise Powell
Louise Powell is doing an MA in Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies with a focus on the way twins are represented 17th century literature. She recently got a Wellcome Trust bursary for...
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