Historian Molly Conisbee reflects on how we’ve paid our respects to the dead over the centuries – from lively gatherings ...

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 ...

show credit information for image 'Swallow it whole : a zine about PrEP for women' Wellcome Collection began collecting zines in 2016 after a conversation between Wellcome librarians Nicola Cook, ...

Myalgic encephalomyelitis, known as ME, as well as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a doubly invisible illness. Not only are the symptoms hard to see, but the disease also attracts little ...

Sometime in the first half of the 17th century, the alchemist and physician Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580–1644) was spending a fairly typical day in his laboratory conducting experiments on wolfsbane ...

Building upon her photo story ‘No you’re not – a portrait of autistic women’, women from minoritised communities talk to photographer Rosie Barnes about their experiences of being autistic in a world ...

While recent research shows art in hospitals plays an active role in patients’ healing, its presence in medical buildings is nothing new. Art historian Anne Wallentine discusses why icons, frescoes, ...

show credit information for image 'Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London. Photo: Benjamin Gilbert' For a neuroscientist, there are few things as awe-inspiring as holding a human brain.

Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...

show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...

When a woman discloses that she’s autistic, the reaction is often, “But you don’t look autistic,” or even a straight denial, “No you’re not.” This insightful and moving series of portraits and ...