Pedigree chart showing representations of people

Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics

An online research resource for the history of genetics, including digitised books and archives from the Wellcome Library and partner institutions.

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Enough to eat?: exploring the causes of poor nutrition

Spotlight on 'Enough to eat?', a 1936 film from the Moving Image and Sound collection

The player: exploring digital collections

Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services, introduces a new tool for viewing digitised content from the Library's collections.

Wellcome Collection development update

Find out more about how the Wellcome Collection development plan affects your visit to the Wellcome Library.

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Bank holiday closure

The Library will be closed from 18:00 Friday 24 May until 10:00 Tuesday 28 May 2013.

Events

Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Wellcome Library

Insights session

23 May 2013, 15.00-16.00

Dutch and Flemish paintings of the 17th century were avidly collected in their own time, and by later connoisseurs and art lovers such as the Prince Regent. Britain has many fine collections of them. So what could Henry Wellcome bring to the party when he started his iconographic collection of them around 1895?