Formal deaf education in England started at the end of the 18th century started with an innovative school in London.

Gout became known as a fashionable disease of the rich and powerful, but has didits notoriety diminish the personal experiences of this painful condition?

Medical Register, Feb 1855 - March 1856, (of the Royal London militia or of a military hospital in London?) Date: 1855-1856 Reference: RAMC/193 ...

This playful exhibition of new and existing works by artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader explores sign language and the right to communicate.

The previous week, the chemist A.W. Hoffman had published an article 'The dance of death' in The times, 1 February 1862, in which he disseminated the finding that green dresses, wreaths, and ...

Credit: A handbook of ophthalmic science and practice / by Henry E. Juler. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be ...

Dalton-in-Furness (England). Urban District Council.

Credit: Das Alexis-Bad im Unter-Harz mit seinen Umgebungen / von Joh. Fr. Krieger. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical ...

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 ...

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, ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese people realised that nothing on the earth lasts forever, including human life. Having the perfect pillow was a way to improve sleep and reach a grand old age. But there ...

show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.