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Join artist Andrea Mindel for a hands-on workshop exploring creativity, mental health and everyday materials.

Human remains make up an important part of the collections vested in Wellcome Collection by its founder, Sir Henry Wellcome.

Researcher and zine-maker Lea Cooper explores pandemic zines made by people who were often familiar with “staying at home” because of disability or chronic illness.

Books, sex workers’ cards, a bomb... the Retrieval Team gives us a glimpse behind the scenes.

Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.

Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?

Chubby little winged boys known as putti frequently adorn scientific illustrations. Sometimes portrayed as reverent and sometimes cheeky, they guide our pursuit of knowledge.

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

This common condiment was once very valuable and, until surprisingly recently, used as a versatile medicine.

The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

Blood. Phlegm. Black bile. Yellow bile. The theory of the four humours informed many of Shakespeare's best-known characters, including the phlegmatic Falstaff.

How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.

Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.

This British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali manuscript about Ayurvedic medicine.

Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?

We love our festive pine cones and poinsettias, but what else are we inviting in with them?

Now one of the most popular forms of exercise, the health-giving properties of swimming have not always been recognised. Dive into a gallery that charts the course from water as site of danger to a space of health.

In honour of the animal’s heroic efforts, here are some favourites from our collection.

Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity.