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Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome Sep 19, 2024

What work do we value, and why? And what traces does work leave on the body?

Hard Graft is our major new free exhibition exploring work, health and rights.

Open now at Wellcome Collection, until April 2025.

Find out more at wellcome.info/hard-graft

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Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome Dec 18, 2024

We're signing out for Christmas today, and when we're back in January, we’ll be taking a break from Twitter (sorry, X).

If sassy-serious-silly posting on health, science, medicine and life is your thing, then follow wellcomecollection on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and TikTok.

A black-and-white photography of the English comedian Dick Emery looking especially jovial as he waves at the camera in a matching floral tracksuit and flat cap.

Credit: Dick Emery waving in a park. Photograph, 197-. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome Nov 18, 2024

Abortion rights are health care rights!

In 1979 a Bill by MP John Corrie aiming to restrict abortion rights was introduced to Parliament.

Resistance through protests and lobbying by an alliance of campaign groups and the Trade Union Congress defeated the bill in March 1980 💪

In a bold comic book style and colours, the feminist symbol of a fist within the venus symbol is in vivid red with a spiky blue action bubble around. “Campaign against Corrie Frankie Armstrong + Red Rinse”.

Against a mustard yellow background is the preamble to the Corrie parliamentary bill stamped over in red with “Fight this bill”. “A commentary on the Corrie Bill - and what you can do…published by the abortion law reform association September 1979”

Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome Nov 15, 2024

You’re trapped on a desert island but can only take one bookshelf from the Wellcome Library to read, which are you packing?

(Please don’t take our library books to any desert islands or indeed anywhere)

#DesertIslandBookshelves

COCAINE - “A brief history” “An Annotated Bibliography” “The Great White Plague”. If you’re feeling a little mellower “Cannabis and Culture” and “Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine”.

HE SEX SIDE OF LIFE: Mary Ware Dennett’s Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education. “Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916 - 1945”, “The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany”, “American Religious Debate over Birth Control”, “The Afro-American Community and the Birth Control…”

Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome Nov 14, 2024

Bodies can be embarrassing

Your nose bleeds. You defecate blood by a tree. You vomit in front of a disappointed-looking pig

People have always had these problems: so next time they happen to you, think of these gentle, unselfconscious 17th century Europeans and feel less alone