Henry Wellcome, renowned philanthropist and founder of a pharmaceutical empire, filled whole warehouses with crates of his purchases. Every crate was packed in turn with numerous objects – hundreds of ...

Credit: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Middle) Alexander Monro Secundus by James Heath (1757–1834), after Henry Raeburn (1756 ... In 1847, Sir James Young Simpson introduced chloroform ...

LOVE IS IN THE AIR, AND THERE’S SOMETHING FOR THOSE WHO LOVE A GOOD SCARE. OH, YES, SIR HENRY’S HAUNTED TRAIL IS BACK FOR THREE NIGHTS ONLY WITH A VALENTINE’S DAY HAUNT. THE LOVE’S REVENGE ...

The man who killed Conservative MP Sir David Amess was released from the Prevent anti-terror programme "too quickly", a review has found. Sir David was stabbed to ...

The government is continuing to put Post Office victims through "hell" in their fight for redress, Sir Alan Bates has told Sky News. More than 240 former sub-postmasters are still waiting for ...

Sir Rod Stewart has sent fans into meltdown following another announcement about his upcoming global tour. Believed to be among his last major international gigs, Sir Rod's One Last Time tour will ...

Tractor horns blare in Milton Keynes as PM targeted in latest demonstration against Budget’s changes to inheritance tax Sir Keir Starmer was forced to cut short a visit to promote his housing ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

Merck & Co has announced a deal with King’s College London (KCL) and Wellcome to investigate a new class of painkillers that could provide an alternative to opioids and their dangerous side-effects.

Showcasing extraordinary medical artefacts from the collections of Henry Wellcome and the Science Museum Group, including the world’s first MRI scanner, Fleming’s penicillin mould, a professional ...

Photograph by G.C. Beresford of Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley (1857-1916 ... were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022. Wellcome Library; GB.

Direct activities WT/D Library and Museum WT/D/1 Images from the photographic library WT/D/1/20 Photographic library: "M" series WT/D/1/20/1 "M" series glass plate negatives: M0012767-M0012868 ...