Formal deaf education in England started at the end of the 18th century started with an innovative school in London.

This playful exhibition of new and existing works by artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader explores sign language and the right to communicate.

The text is by Bourneville and the photographs are by P. Regnard. The plates in v. 1 are mounted photographs (albumen prints) with letterpress captions; the plates in v. 2-3 are collotypes with ...

James Gardiner Collection: unlabelled photograph album.

Credit: The change of life in health and disease : a practical treatise on the nervous and other affections incidental to women at the decline of life / by Edward John Tilt. Source: Wellcome ...

Accounts of the massacre by Japanese invaders of patients and staff at the British Military Hospital (Alexandra Hospital) Singapore on 13-14 February 1942 ("The Alexandra Outrage")RAMC/840 Account by ...

Credit: A handbook of ophthalmic science and practice / by Henry E. Juler. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be ...

Dalton-in-Furness (England). Urban District Council.

In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...

How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...

show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.