Events

May

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  Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Wellcome Library

  Insights session

  23 May 2013, 15.00-16.00

  Location: Wellcome Library

  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?

June

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  Sex and the city: the STDs of old London

  Insights session

  13 June 2013, 15.00-16.00

  Location: Wellcome Library

  Dr Lesley Hall looks at the history of sexually transmitted diseases, with particular reference to how Londoners accessed treatment from the 17th century onwards, and changes in attitudes and provisions over that period.