Copy 1, Volume 1 Turnbuch für Schulen als Anleitung für den Turnunterricht durch die Lehrer der Schulen / Von Adolf Spiess.

Discover all of the exhibitions, events and more on offer at Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library exploring health and human experience.

'Finger Talk' is a new British Sign Language (BSL) artwork by Cathy Mager that invites visitors to step out of a hearing-centred world and into a space shaped by deaf perspectives. Bringing together ...

Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

E. Gittos, dress and corset maker : most respectfully announces to her friends and the public, that she is recently returned from London, where she has purchased a fashionable assortment of dresses ...

A 19th-century campaigner who condemned the practice of keeping a dead person at home before the funeral started a gradual trend for outsourcing the preparation and storage of a body. But as a ...

Thomas Jameson, M.D.The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London : comprising biographical sketches of all the eminent physicians whose names are recorded in the Annals ...

The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.

We are a free museum and library connecting science, medicine, life and art. You’ll find exhibitions, events and a library in our beautiful building in central London.

The library is free to visit and open to everyone over the age of 18, whether you’re using the collections for research or just curious to find out more. Our collections contain historical and ...

A skeleton dressed in a coat sits on a balcony and strokes a raven. Process print after Walter Appleton Clark.