If you fancy your very own piece of the often barbaric and macabre history of medicine, then a new collection of over a hundred thousand ancient images could be for you. Wellcome Images, one of the ...

Over the next two years, the Wellcome Library, partnered with digital technology charity Jisc, is collaborating with nine institutions to put 15 million pages of 19th-century medical books online.

The Wellcome Library has launched an Open Access fund to enable users to publish their work in Open Access form. The Library said it was looking to put "at least £100,000" behind the fund over the ...

Recently, Wellcome Library released 100,000 high-resolution images into the public domain. The scans include 'manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements', and collectively ...

Touch Me Not from Fulgur Limited is the first color facsimile of a vividly bizarre 18th-century manuscript of the black magical arts. A few weeks ago, the Wellcome Library announced a new initiative ...

Especially when you’re confronted with the stomach-churning realities of the past. These images show exactly what is what like to have major operations in the 17th, 18th and 19th century. As you can ...

Imagine having an operation without anaesthetic. Before 1846, when the first procedure using pain-numbing drugs was carried out, this was was the norm. Hamfisted and brutal, surgeons cut patients open ...

Some 15 million yellowed pages of text and images from arcane 19th-century medical books are about to go digital. Nine British universities and research institutions are sending their collections of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When I meet Sir William “Bill” Castell, outgoing chair of the Wellcome Trust, he is fuming. A story has run in the ...

The Wellcome Library has launched an Open Access fund to enable users to publish their work in Open Access form. The Library said it was looking to put "at least £100,000" behind the fund over the ...