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Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Information to help you plan and prepare for your visit to 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater'.

Our library’s collections cover thousands of years of health and medicine across different cultures.

Library members can book a study room in the library as an accessible study space or for group study.

You can use scanners, operated by your library account, to make copies from our collections. You can also use your own camera, subject to some regulations.

You can use your laptop and other mobile devices in the library for research and study. If you’re a library member you can also use the library computers and printing facility.

Join facilitator Isabelle Gapomo for a series of talks and tours on Thursday evenings throughout October as part of Black History Month.

Discover more about African myths and practices around water in this tour of the 'Thirst' exhibition.

Come and play 1884, an anticolonial immersive theatre show.

Join a tour of the 'Expecting' display, celebrating Black cultural and spiritual experiences of pregnancy and childbirth across centuries.

Discover how items in the 'Being Human' exhibition connect with the remarkable story of Henrietta Lacks.

Join a performance-based workshop, exploring the effects of transgenerational trauma through the lived experiences of people of colour.

Join a gallery tour about how sign languages are used in Black communities.

Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Join Claudia Hammond and guests as they delve into the latest evidence on weight loss injections.

When it comes to precision surgical tools, only the hand and eye of a skilled toolmaker will do.

Discover how hands and bodies can hold conversations, tell stories and express emotions in this programme of Deaf-led events.

Join a creative writing workshop, suitable for all levels, inspired by items from our collections.

Join Deaf historian Peter Brown for a BSL tour of 1880 THAT, with a focus on the Milan Conference of 1880.

Discover the creative side of bread in this practical workshop about bread and community.