Past events

Our events take place both online and in our building. Choose from an inspiring range of free talks, discussions and more.

1-100
Free admission
  • Festival
  • 14 to 19-year-olds

A Breath of Fresh Air Festival

Throughout our building
Past

Part of A Breath of Fresh Air

  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Claire Ratinon

Information Point
Past

Part of Perspective Tours

  • Performance

Index of Shapes

Malet Street Gardens, Bloomsbury
Past
  • Discussion

Am I Normal?

Reading Room
Past

Part of Library Insights

  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Kim Walker

Information Point
Past

Part of Perspective Tours

  • Workshop

Queering the Collection

Medicine Man gallery
Past
  • Relaxed
  • Walking tour

Messages to a Post-Human Earth

St George’s Gardens
Past
  • Festival

Invisible Touch

Online | In our building
Available to watch

Part of Feeling Our Way

  • Wheelchair friendly
  • Relaxed
  • Discussion

Hybrid Humans with Harry Parker

Online | In our building
Available to watch
  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Symposium
  • Schools

Bodies of Knowledge Symposium

Throughout our building
Past
  • British Sign Language
  • Study day
  • Schools

Body Image

The Studio
Past

Part of Study Days

  • Workshop
  • Relaxed

Sounds Like London

The Forum
Past
  • Wheelchair friendly
  • Study day
  • Schools

HIV and AIDS

The Studio
Past

Part of Study Days

  • Performance

The Passion Flower Blooms

The Forum
Past
  • Discussion

Milk and Whiteness

Online | In our building
Available to watch
  • British Sign Language
  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Performance

Slalom

Reading Room
Past
  • Relaxed
  • Discussion

Reconsidering the Vagina

Online
Past

Part of Library Insights

  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion

The Nature of Mental Health

Reading Room
Past

Part of The Evidence

  • British Sign Language
  • Discussion

Gardeners’ Question Time

Henry Wellcome Auditorium
Past
  • Festival

Personal Touch

Online | In our building
Available to watch

Part of Feeling Our Way

  • Relaxed
  • Discussion

The Visual Regime of Medicine in Late Colonial India

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion

Love Letters in Conversation

The Forum
Past

Part of Love Letters to a Liveable Future, residency

  • British Sign Language
  • Discussion

Matrix Vegetal

Online
Available to watch
  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion

Access to Birth Control in Early 20th-century Ireland

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Speech-to-text
  • Festival
  • Relaxed

Reaching Out

Online | In our building
Available to watch

Part of Feeling Our Way

  • Discussion

Getting Started with Research at Wellcome Collection

Online
Available to watch
  • British Sign Language
  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion

Antimicrobial Resistance

Reading Room
Past

Part of The Evidence

  • British Sign Language
  • Workshop

Resistance and Revelry

Reading Room
Past
  • Discussion

Parent Advocacy and Attitudes Towards Cerebral Palsy in the Mid-20th Century

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Speech-to-text
  • British Sign Language
  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Rianna Walcott

Information Point
Past

Part of Perspective Tours

  • Discussion

Experiences of Recovery

Online
Available to watch
  • British Sign Language
  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Dean McColl

Information Point
Past

Part of Perspective Tours

  • Discussion

Medical Involvement in the Early Modern Slave Trade

Online
Past

Part of Exploring Research

  • Auto-captioned
  • Workshop
  • Relaxed

(Un)happy queers

Online
Past
  • Auto-captioned
  • Workshop
  • 14 to 19-year-olds

Can People Make Us Happy?

Online
Past

Part of Who Wants To Be Happy?

  • Speech-to-text
  • British Sign Language
  • Audio described
  • Discussion

Experiencing Ear Trumpets in the Enlightenment

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • British Sign Language
  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion

Happiness, A Mystery

Online
Available to watch

Part of Library Insights

  • Speech-to-text
  • Workshop

Choreographing Joy

Online
Past

Part of Dance the Pain Away

  • British Sign Language
  • Discussion

Social Dance and Traumatic Histories

Online
Available to watch

Part of Dance the Pain Away

  • British Sign Language
  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Discussion

Harold Offeh In Conversation

Online
Available to watch

Part of Dance the Pain Away

  • British Sign Language
  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Workshop
  • 14 to 19-year-olds

Why Do We Laugh?

Online
Past

Part of Who Wants To Be Happy?

  • Speech-to-text
  • British Sign Language
  • Audio described
  • Discussion

Racial Difference in the Anglophone Caribbean

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Auto-captioned
  • Workshop
  • 14 to 19-year-olds

Do We Need Nature?

Online
Past

Part of Who Wants To Be Happy?

  • Speech-to-text
  • British Sign Language
  • Audio described
  • Discussion

Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts

Online
Available to watch

Part of Library Insights

  • Speech-to-text
  • Workshop
  • 14 to 19-year-olds

Can You Train Your Brain To Be Happy?

Online
Past

Part of Who Wants To Be Happy?

  • Speech-to-text
  • British Sign Language
  • Audio described
  • Discussion

Nothing About Us Without Us

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • British Sign Language
  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion

Curating Happiness

Online
Available to watch
  • British Sign Language
  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Discussion

Film and Neurodiversity

Online
Available to watch

Part of Library Insights

  • British Sign Language
  • Discussion

Es Morgan in Conversation With Amy Bell

Online
Available to watch
  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Discussion

Khairani Barokka in Conversation with Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz

Online
Available to watch
  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion

An Extra Pair of Hands with Kate Mosse and Rachel Clarke

Online
Available to watch
  • Audio described
  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion

Postnatal Depression and New Motherhood with Emma Jane Unsworth

Online
Available to watch
  • Audio described
  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion

The Entangled Histories of LGBTQI+ Lives in Britain

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Auto-captioned
  • Discussion

Suffragette Surgeons of Endell Street

Online
Available to watch

Part of Library Insights

  • Speech-to-text
  • Screening

Premiere of Alesandra Seutin's ‘Inside Head’

Online
Past
  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Discussion

Mary Wortley Montagu and the Fight to Cure Smallpox

Online
Available to watch

Part of Library Insights

  • Speech-to-text
  • Seminar

Picturing the Asylum

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Auto-captioned
  • Discussion

Faith-based Responses to Epidemics

Online
Available to watch

Part of Library Insights

  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion
  • 14 to 19-year-olds

Young People on Education and What We Learned From Lockdown

Online
Available to watch

Part of What Does It Mean To Be Young, Now?

  • Speech-to-text
  • Seminar

Decolonising the Excavations at Jebel Moya

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Auto-captioned
  • Discussion

Your Den

Online
Past
  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Discussion
  • Relaxed

A Different Kind of Future with Heart n Soul

Online
Available to watch
  • Speech-to-text
  • British Sign Language
  • Discussion

Intensive Care with Dr Gavin Francis

Online
Available to watch
  • Speech-to-text
  • Seminar

Is Tear Gas as British as Tea?

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Auto-captioned
  • Discussion

The Surfaces of Skin and Screens

Online
Available to watch

Part of Library Insights

  • Speech-to-text
  • Event

Dissertation Inspiration Seminars

Online
Past
  • Auto-captioned
  • Event

D/deaf and Disabled Artists on Making Work Now

Online
Available to watch
  • British Sign Language
  • Speech-to-text
  • Event
  • 14 to 19-year-olds

Young People, Mental Health and Recipes for Self-care

Online
Available to watch

Part of What Does It Mean To Be Young, Now?

  • Speech-to-text
  • Event
  • Relaxed

Supporting Ourselves While Supporting Our Communities

Online
Available to watch

Part of Supporting Ourselves

  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Discussion

Curators Introduce Art by Kerry Tribe and Sop

Online
Available to watch
  • Captioned
  • Discussion

Condoms in the Kitchen

Online
Available to watch

Part of Library Insights

  • Speech-to-text
  • Event

Considering the Source of Elizabeth Blackwell’s ‘A Curious Herbal’

Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Event

Monstrous Births in the Middle Ages

Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Event

An Introduction to Arabic Medical Tables

Past

Part of Exploring Research

  • Event

Sexual Diseases and Medicine in Early Modern South Asia

Past

Part of Exploring Research

  • Discussion

Supporting Ourselves in Changing Times

Online
Available to watch

Part of Supporting Ourselves

  • Speech-to-text
  • British Sign Language
  • Festival

Take Care

Online
Past
  • Discussion

Empathy in an Age of Division

Online
Available to watch
  • Audio described
  • Speech-to-text
  • Discussion
  • 14 to 19-year-olds

Changing Our Planet, Changing Our Minds

Online
Available to watch
  • Captioned
  • Late

CANCELLED: The Beautiful Octopus Club

Throughout our building
Past
  • Study day
  • Schools

Body Image

The Studio
Past

Part of Study Days

  • Discussion

DNA, Diversity and Difference

The Forum
Past

Part of Study Days

  • Speech-to-text
  • Study day
  • Schools

HIV and AIDS

The Studio
Past

Part of Study Days

  • Discussion

Body Themes in Manga Art

Viewing Room
Past

Part of Library Insights

  • British Sign Language
  • Seminar

Surrogacy as Reproductive Labour

Viewing Room
Past

Part of Exploring Research

  • Gallery tour

BSL Tour of Play Well

Information Point
Past

Part of Access Tours and Discussions

  • British Sign Language
  • Discussion

The Future of Memory

The Forum
Past

Part of Packed Lunch

  • Study day
  • Schools

Bodies of Knowledge

The Studio
Past

Part of Study Days

  • Workshop

The Word as Body

Viewing Room
Past
  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Tom Williams

Gallery 1
Past

Part of Perspective Tours

  • Workshop

Dissertation Inspiration Workshops

Viewing Room
Past
  • Festival

Permission to Play

Throughout our building
Past
  • Workshop

Love for Sale

Reading Room
Past
  • Workshop

Humour and Peril in Public Health Posters

Viewing Room
Past
  • Discussion

Maladies and Medicine

Viewing Room
Past

Part of Library Insights

  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Lillian Zwarts

Gallery 1
Past

Part of Perspective Tours

  • Seminar

The Queer World of Margaret Lowenfeld

Viewing Room
Past

Part of Exploring Research

  • Workshop

Fanny Burney

Reading Room
Past
  • Study day
  • Schools

World of Work

The Studio
Past

Part of Study Days

  • Discussion

Air Pollution and Health

Reading Room
Past

Part of The Evidence