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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This summer's Brains exhibition has been The Wellcome Collection's most popular ever The Wellcome Collection in London has unveiled a major £17.5 million expansion project. The science-based ...

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 ...

The Wellcome Research Library of the Royal Society of Medicine is, in a number of respects, analogous to the Boston Medical Library. They are comparable in size, the British institution containing 250 ...