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For Micha Frazer-Carroll, mental health conditions and disabilities are an undeniable part of her Caribbean family’s shared history – but many of her relatives choose not to see, name or diagnose ...
Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from ...
Credit: Arsenical poisoning by wall-papers and other manufactured articles / by Jabez Hogg. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of ...
Credit: Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. on the responsibility of monomaniacs for the crime of murder / by James Stark. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has ...
From ancient tradition to modern gym class, yoga means many things to many people. Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga ...
Join us for an evening of activities to mark the launch of 'No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality' by Molly Conisbee. We'll be exploring the topic of death, dying, and how these endings ...
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Join Enver and Rebekah from our Visitor Experience Team for a soap-making workshop. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll be able to select from a variety of moulds, colours, scents and additional ...
Credit: How to work with the microscope / by Lionel S. Beale. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s ...
Copy of John Hewitt, Handbook for the City of Lichfield and its Neighbourhood 2nd edn. (Lichfield: A C Lomax, "The Johnson's Head"; 1884). The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and ...
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Credit: A treatise on fractures in the vicinity of joints, and on certain forms of accidental and congenital dislocations / by Robert William Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This ...