Join researcher Grace Redhead for an exploration of the Sickle Cell Society archive, which documents decades of research, outreach and activism.

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Grassroots Sickle Cell Activism

Grace Redhead

Elizabeth Anionwu

Join an online discussion that will uncover how and why milk matters, historically, from two different perspectives.

Milk Matters

Deborah Valenze

Hillary Nunn

Julia Nurse

Two cultural historians share their research recovering hidden histories of people affected during the HIV/ AIDS epidemic.

Hidden Histories of HIV

Hannah Elizabeth

Janet Weston

Paul Steinberg

At this online event, you’ll meet three different artists who will share how they got started with creative research at Wellcome Collection.

Getting Started with Creative Research

Myrto Farmaki

Clara Searle

Gergo Varga

Sophie Schneider

Join a scientist, a medievalist and a conservator – in the Wellcome Collection building or online – to hear about their research on a medieval English birthing girdle, Ms.632.

Girding the Loins

Kierri Price

Sarah Fiddyment

Stefania Signorello

Elma Brenner

Dreaming, old age, and melancholia in the Early Modern era

Elaine Leong

Amie Bolissian

Niall Boyce

Emily Betz

Join Professor Chris Mounsey to find out about the life of blind teacher Nicholas Saunderson, who was a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University between 1711 and 1739.

The Blind Teacher

Chris Mounsey

Declan Kavanagh

Watch a recording of Dr Apurba Chatterjee to hear about her research looking at medical imagery of malaria in British India between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries.

The Visual Regime of Medicine in Late Colonial India

Dr Apurba Chatterjee

Watch a recording of Dr Laura Kelly talking about the experiences of Irish men and women trying to access contraception in the early 20th century.

Access to Birth Control in Early 20th-century Ireland

Dr Laura Kelly

Watch a recording with Hannah Murphy to explore the practical role of medical experts in the construction of the early modern slave trade.

Medical Involvement in the Early Modern Slave Trade

Hannah Murphy

Hear Dr Sigrid Vertommen discuss her research on women’s roles in “reproductive labour” in the 30-billion-dollar global fertility industry. After the talk you’ll have the opportunity to look at key documents from Wellcome Collection’s archives and ask questions.

Surrogacy as Reproductive Labour

Dr Sigrid Vertommen

Come and hear Dr Richard Williams discuss his research on music and sound in Mughal India.

Listening to Hindi Manuscripts

Richard Williams

Hear Dr Joanne Edge discuss how physicians in the later Middle Ages predicted when and whether sick people would die, recover or decline.

Predicting Life and Death in the Later Middle Ages

Joanne Edge

Join Dr David Griffiths to explore recent and contemporary LGBTQI+ histories through Wellcome Collection material, particularly those connected to intersex lives in Britain.

The Entangled Histories of LGBTQI+ Lives in Britain

Dr David Griffiths

Watch a recording of Dr Katherine Rawling as she explores the casebooks of Holloway Sanatorium, a private hospital for “the insane” in Virginia Water, Surrey.

Picturing the Asylum

Dr Katherine Rawling

Watch a recording of Dr Rana Hogarth investigating the circulation of ideas about ‘innate’ racial differences in the Caribbean and beyond.

Racial Difference in the Anglophone Caribbean

Dr Rana Hogarth

Watching a recording of Dr Teresa Hillier talking about how parents of children born with cerebral palsy in the mid-20th century took action to confront how educational inequality disadvantaged their children.

Parent Advocacy and Attitudes Towards Cerebral Palsy in the Mid-20th Century

Dr Teresa Hillier

Join Isabelle Vella Gregory as she explores Jebel Moya, an archaeological site in the southern Gezira Plain in Sudan, first excavated by Henry Wellcome between 1911 and 1914.

Decolonising the Excavations at Jebel Moya

Isabelle Vella Gregory

Using the ‘Regimen Sanitatis’, published by the famous medieval medical school of Salerno, this talk will explore how vernacular medical knowledge was spread among ordinary people in early modern Italy.

Bringing Health Advice to a Wider Public

Tessa Storey

Watch a recording of Dr Ruben Verwaal to explore the oldest acoustic hearing aids in Wellcome Collection: the ear trumpet.

Experiencing Ear Trumpets in the Enlightenment

Dr Ruben Verwaal

Hear about the Egyptian Society, the first of its kind, which emerged during the 18th century as interest in antiquarian study peaked.

The First Antiquarian Egyptian Society

Anna Marie Roos

Explore evidence of how, in the early modern period, people believed itchy skin diseases were caused internally, but manifested themselves on the skin.

Itching Without End in the Early Modern Period

Kathleen Walker-Meikle

Join artists Dolly Sen, Christopher Samuel and disability historian Professor David Turner to hear about their experiences as users of Wellcome Collection and the methods they used to research the suppressed histories of disability.

Nothing About Us Without Us

Jess Bailey

Dolly Sen

Christopher Samuel

Professor David Turner

Join Dr Anna Feigenbaum as she examines the science of policing with tear gas over the past 100 years – and the politics that surrounds it.

Is Tear Gas as British as Tea?

Anna Feigenbaum

Hear Dr Elsa Richardson discuss her research on an Edwardian health guru and forgotten pioneer of dietary reform and physical culture.

Self-Help and Health Food in Edwardian London

Elsa Richardson

Hear about Asylum, “the magazine for democratic psychiatry”, and consider its historical context and research significance and potential from a range of perspectives.

Voices of Democratic Psychiatry

Helen Spandler

Anne Plumb

Tony Baldwinson

Hear a talk about the relationship between playing and health, focusing on psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s accounts of the origins of creativity in a baby’s early life.

Playing at Creating Reality

Robert Ades

Find out about the life and love(r)s of pioneering 20th-century child psychotherapist Margaret Lowenfeld.

The Queer World of Margaret Lowenfeld

Dr Katherine Hubbard

Join us to mark 50 years since the publication of psychiatrist John Bowlby’s landmark book, ‘Attachment’, with a talk from Dr Robbie Duschinsky on Bowlby’s private and public personas.

John Bowlby in Public and in Private

Robbie Duschinsky

Come and hear Dr Emma Spary discuss her research on the often- overlooked role of priests in the history of pharmacy.

Priests and Drugs in 17th-Century Paris

Emma Spary

Join Janet Tyson as she outlines both the origins of and explanatory texts in ‘A Curious Herbal’ (1737 and 1739) by Elizabeth Blackwell.

Considering the Source of Elizabeth Blackwell’s ‘A Curious Herbal’

Janet Tyson

Join Sonia Wigh as she shares her research on 17th and 18th century medico-sexual Persian manuscripts.

Sexual Diseases and Medicine in Early Modern South Asia

Sonia Wigh

Come and hear Dr Emma Purce discuss her research on freak shows and British seaside culture between 1900 and 1950.

Freak Shows, Seaside Resorts and 20th-century British Culture

Emma Purce

Join us to hear Meekyung MacMurdie discuss striking Arabic medical tables, using examples from Wellcome Collection.

An Introduction to Arabic Medical Tables

Meekyung MacMurdie

Hear from Dr Lori Jones about how her research into plague outbreaks has been informed by our medieval collections.

Looking for Plague

Lori Jones

Hear Dr Katherine Harvey discuss her research on parasites in medieval Europe, uncovering medieval attitudes to nits, lice and worms.

Parasites in Medieval Europe

Katherine Harvey

Join Tim Wingard as he explores medieval theories of embryology and the concept of the hybrid human/animal monster.

Monstrous Births in the Middle Ages

Tim Wingard

Come and hear Dr Caroline Rusterholz discuss her research on the history of the Brook Advisory Centres in the 1960s and 1970s.

Teens and Sex, the History of Brook Advisory Centres

Caroline Rusterholz

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Exploring Research Seminar Milk Matters

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Exploring Research

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The Forum

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Discussion event in The Forum

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Hear from people who have researched our collections, as they share their discoveries. They'll draw on examples from our collections to relate the stories that they've uncovered. And you’ll have a chance to ask them questions afterwards.

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