Wellcome Collection

What work do we value, and why? And what traces does work leave on the body? Hard Graft is our major new free exhibition exploring work, health and rights. Open now at Wellcome Collection, until April 2025. Find out more at wellcome.info/hard-graft

@MunicipalDreams Our pleasure! The meta-data is fixed on our systems and should trickle through to the front end soon. Always happy to get help in improving our data!

@ExploreWellcome You're welcome (no pun intended!). They are a great resource and I'm grateful for what you put online so no criticism intended.

@ExploreWellcome Your collection of online resources is great but just a quick heads-up that Blyth Rural District Council is in Suffolk, not Northumberland as catalogued. (Not trying to be clever, just couldn't find another way of contacting you,)

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We're signing out for Christmas today, and when we're back in January, we’ll be taking a break from Twitter (sorry, X). If sassy-serious-silly posting on health, science, medicine and life is your thing, then follow wellcomecollection on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and TikTok.

This battle appears across several of our archive collections including the National Abortion Campaign (SA/NAC), Abortion Law Reform Association (SA/ALR) and in our Visual Materials collections (664631i). Explpre them by searching on our website: wellcomecollection.org/collections

Abortion rights are health care rights! In 1979 a Bill by MP John Corrie aiming to restrict abortion rights was introduced to Parliament. Resistance through protests and lobbying by an alliance of campaign groups and the Trade Union Congress defeated the bill in March 1980 💪

@JeffreyKotyk Lovely illustration!

I would take the Ming-period manual on materia medica. Need to know the water sources! wellcomecollection.org/works/n2h8ba5j…

@aptronym Probably the wisest decision! 🏝️

@ExploreWellcome I'd choose whatever book you have which would best help me if I was in need of medicines/ medical attention on that particular island - healing plants, that sort of thing. But if it's just from your pics, the first pic.

You’re trapped on a desert island but can only take one bookshelf from the Wellcome Library to read, which are you packing? (Please don’t take our library books to any desert islands or indeed anywhere) #DesertIslandBookshelves

Psychoactive drugs, the art of Mexico, the history mental health and smallpox - take your pick from our open library shelves!

Some more shelves to browse 📚📚📚📖 Ayurvedic medicine, American folklore, British agriculture, Alfred Russel Wallace...

@VersusArthritis @AnnieLord11 @TheKennedyTrust The archive is listed on our collections website and can be ordered for study in our Rare Materials Room Explore it here: wellcome.info/antiTNF

For many Anti-TNF treatments have been life-changing. But what do we know about the history of Anti-TNFs? Hear from @AnnieLord11, former Cataloguing Archivist at @ExploreWellcome as she shares with us some fascinating archives from @TheKennedyTrust - youtu.be/LsdFno5g6t8

Alt text: These manuscript illustrations beautifully represent the eternal human experiences described above. Also pictured: a squatting man attending to his bum; and a woman puking into a small cauldron. Credit: Arzneibuch, MS 990, Wellcome Collection. wellcomecollection.org/works/smgvpexe

Bodies can be embarrassing Your nose bleeds. You defecate blood by a tree. You vomit in front of a disappointed-looking pig People have always had these problems: so next time they happen to you, think of these gentle, unselfconscious 17th century Europeans and feel less alone

A beautiful oil painting by Oswald Moser showing wounded First World War sailors lying on the deck of a ship as their comrades play music for them. #ArmisticeDay Explore the work in more detail here: wellcome.info/moser

We also remember Edwin Thomas Port. He joined the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1932. He lived in Fulham and Bushey and married Kathleen Alice Port. He died aged 26 in 1942 while serving in the RAF. His aircraft was lost off the west coast of France. #RemembranceSunday

She was likely the only member of the WAAF who carried around a set of the work of Robert Boyle in her suitcase. She worked for the museum for 35 years, making great contributions to exhibitions and academic work.

Today we remember the work of Margaret Esther Rowbottom (1909-1999) In peacetime she worked for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but in wartime she was mentioned in dispatches for secret telecommunications intelligence work.

Our Gen Z colleague making tea station conversation: Did you see @noelfielding11's jumper on Bake Off last night? It's the cover of an issue of Oz magazine in our collection (Oz 16, November 1968). #GBBO wellcomecollection.org/works/jqbyq9sz