Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

Credit: Practical dietary for families, schools, and the labouring classes / by Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library.

Credit: Reports of special assistant poor law commissioners on the employment of women and children in agriculture. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by London ...

Credit: Atlas d'anatomie descriptive du corps humain / par C. Bonamy, Paul Broca et Émile Beau. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of ...

show credit information for image 'A young woman skillfully balances a bowl of kola nuts on her head' A young woman skillfully balances a bowl of kola nuts on her head, Photos: Yaw Afrim Gyebi for ...

include personal details of living individuals be upsetting or distressing be explicit or graphic include objects and images of objects decontextualised in a way that is offensive to the originating ...

Credit: The principles and practice of surgery / by John Ashhurst ; illustrated with five hundred and thirty-three engravings on wood. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been ...

Credit: The sixth annual report of the Chinese Hospital, at Shanghae, from January 1st, to December 31st, 1852 / by the Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been ...

Marguerite Agniel posing leaning back wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio. Marguerite Agniel posing with her back arched and feet in the air, wearing a two-piece ...

7th International Congress on Mental Health, London, 1968. [organised by NAMH; RSA Secretary of the Programme Committee]PP/ADD/E/2/14-15 7th International Congress on ...

A woman posing naked in a photographic studio, sitting on a chair in front of a looking-glass. Stereo photograph, c.1900. Two men posing naked in a photographic studio, standing with fencing epees.

How did a nut that’s been prized across West Africa for centuries come to be integral in the development of the world’s most ubiquitous soft drink? The story is a surprising mix of colonialism, ...