Wellcome Library

From Monday 21st May we'll be posting our Library updates over on the Wellcome Collection page. Head over there for combined Collection and Library content! See you soon!

As usual, the Library will be closed over the long weekend this Easter. Make sure you check our opening times before visiting!

Wellcome Library | Opening hours Opening times for the Wellcome Library, London. Open Monday - Saturday. Any forthcoming closures are listed so you can plan accordingly.

Come along to our next Library Insight talk this coming Thursday - all welcome! Elma Brenner on 'Untapped: Water and health, 1350-1550' https://wellcomecollection.org/events/WoK_JioAACoANemu

Come along to hear Elma Brenner's Insight talk and see some fabulous books, prints and manuscripts

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Untapped: Water and health, 1350-1550 In this event, you’ll hear Dr Elma Brenner talk about medieval people's ambivalent relationship with water and you’ll see a selection of early manuscripts, early printed books and prints.

Wellcome Library will close at 18:00 on Thursday this week so that our visitors and colleagues are able to travel home more safely. If you have any questions or concerns, please email [email protected] or phone +44 (0)20 7611 8722.

Details of tonight's History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar. All welcome for the final seminar of the season!

Dr Dror Weil (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) - Arabo-Persian physiological theories in late Imperial China

Arabo-Persian physiological theories in late Imperial China The last seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 27 February. Speaker: Dr Dror Weil (Max Planck In

Come along to our next History of Pre Modern Medicine on Tuesday - all welcome!

Speaker: Dr Dror Weil (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)

Arabo-Persian physiological theories in late Imperial China

Arabo-Persian physiological theories in late Imperial China The last seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 27 February. Speaker: Dr Dror Weil (Max Planck In

Details of next week's seminar! All welcome - come along!

Smell and medical efficacy in 18th-century England The next seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 13 February. Speaker: Dr William Tullett (Instit

We're very excited to be hosting this conference later this month!

Broadcasting Health and Disease conference Broadcasting Health and Disease: Bodies, markets and television, 1950s–1980s An ERC BodyCapital international conference to be held at the Wellcome Trust, 19

Details of tomorrow's History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar.

All welcome - hope to see you there!

Plague in Italy and Europe during the 17th century The next seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 30 January. Speaker: Professor Guido Alfani (Bo

Details of the next in our series of History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminars!

Professor Guido Alfani (Bocconi University, Milan) will be speaking on 'Plague in Italy and Europe during the 17th century: epidemiology and impact'

All welcome!

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Plague in Italy and Europe during the 17th century The next seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 30 January. Speaker: Professor Guido Alfani (Bo

All the details on Tuesday's History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar with Dr Catherine Rider on 'Medieval Ideas about Infertility and Old Age' - hope to see you there!

Medieval Ideas about Infertility and Old Age The next seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 16 January. Speaker: Dr Catherine Rider (Univer