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 ...

An extremely rare tiny medieval medical almanac once owned by the eccentric poet and critic Edith Sitwell has been acquired by the Wellcome Library for £100,000. The almanac is a combined calendar, ...

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 ...

Ben Valsler: Sited on Euston road in London, the Wellcome Collection combines three contemporary galleries together with the world famous Wellcome library and a new forum for public debate on science.

Frances Pinter's open access pilot project Knowledge Unlatched has attracted high-profile support from the Wellcome Library. The Knowledge Unlatched model allows participating libraries to share 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 ...

Library to house 1787 and 1788 editions of Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, a directory of women including their addresses and prices The modest little book must have sat so innocently on the ...

Digitized papers from 17th century Scotland could provide information on whether your ancestor was an alleged witch. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Christopher Hilton of the Wellcome Library in London.

Whether you need somewhere to study or cosy up with your favourite book, London’s libraries provide an essential quiet haven in the bustling city. But many of them require you to go through a ...

Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library Vol. 1: Books printed before 1641. Pp. xv + 407. (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1962.) 210s.; 30 dollars.

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 ...