Needle, a small London-based group, led the early fight for patient rights. Leona Letts reveals how they championed giving ...

'Finger Talk' is a new British Sign Language (BSL) artwork by Cathy Mager that invites you to enter a space shaped by deaf perspectives.

Bible. O.T. Isaiah 13-14. Jeremiah 50-1. A large green serpent is coiled around a pillar in the centre. It may be the serpent/dragon mentioned in the apocryphal 'Bel and the Dragon', which was ...

Bartholomaeus de Ripa Romea, De lapidibus, and other texts Date: Mid 14th Century Reference: MS.116 ...

W. v. Gloeden Kunstverlag deponirt 1 Aug 1900 Taormina Sicilia Bears pencilled number on verso: 1735 The lettering is rubber-stamped on the verso Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin ...

Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...

How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...

show credit information for image 'Legacies of eugenics in school' Legacies of eugenics in school. © Gergo Varga (varrgo.com) for Wellcome Collection. When A-level ...

In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...

In the final year of the First World War a deadly pandemic spread rapidly around the world. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–19 infected up to a third of the world’s population and killed up to 100 ...

show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...

Africanus Horton Road runs through the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. My dad studied medicine here before graduating at the tender age of 21 (he was something of a child prodigy). He then moved to ...