Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.

Chapter originally reprinted from: The New Orleans medical and surgical journal, May 1851, p. 691-715.

This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries. "The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of ...

An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ and ‘What White People Can Do Next’. What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot ...

[Watt Smith] treats each emotion with the expertise of a wine taster, showing how it is formed from a mixture of many other emotions. Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday Bite-size entries on emotions from the ...

Magazine insert advertising Hall's Coca Wine, a tonic wine made from the leaves of the Erythroxylon Coca plant. Sir Robert Christison is mentioned as being an early advocate of coca as a medicine. The ...

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The life and miracles of St. Wenefrede , together with her Litanies; with some historical observations made thereon.

Credit: A plea for the botanic practice of medicine / by John Skelton. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at ...

Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, ...

We think of assistive technology as something modern, and that people with mobility issues in the past were limited to their locality or confined within their homes. But there are clues in the ...

Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe and reveals a long history of communicating with hand signs among both deaf and hearing communities. In some senses, deaf ...