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Wellcome Library will be closed from Saturday 26 May-Monday 28 May 2018. We'll reopen on Tuesday 29 May at 10.00.

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Curious about what you'll find in the Wellcome Library? Discover the wide variety of topics and media in the Library collections, browse our free digitised material and go wherever your curiosity takes you.

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Film and Sound

Our digitised films and sound recordings cover a hundred years of health and medicine online, from animated feet to the voice of Florence Nightingale.

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