Join an in-conversation between Grace Spence Green and Kyla Harris, as Grace explores her journey from spinal-injury patient ...

Historian Molly Conisbee reflects on how we’ve paid our respects to the dead over the centuries – from lively gatherings ...

show credit information for image 'Disability, desire, and pleasure unlocked' Disability, desire, and pleasure unlocked. © Darren Black for Wellcome Collection. In ...

The NHS is infected by systemic racism and misogynoir. If this word is new to you, misogynoir is the “hatred of women, directed towards Black women”. When the first universal healthcare system, free ...

The milkmaid who once extracted milk from the cow and prepared dairy products for the wider community had a mixed reputation. Robust, practical, pretty and pure, she was a symbol of wholesomeness and ...

Pilgrims visiting a stick-like tree on a tiny, mid-loch island in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland will have, most likely, travelled for several hours to get there, undertaking the last leg by boat ...

While recent research shows art in hospitals plays an active role in patients’ healing, its presence in medical buildings is nothing new. Art historian Anne Wallentine discusses why icons, frescoes, ...

show credit information for image 'Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London. Photo: Benjamin Gilbert' For a neuroscientist, there are few things as awe-inspiring as holding a human brain.

Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...

show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...

When a woman discloses that she’s autistic, the reaction is often, “But you don’t look autistic,” or even a straight denial, “No you’re not.” This insightful and moving series of portraits and ...

The early Christian Church was built on the bodies of martyrs. Sometimes this was by literally constructing places of worship on the site of a martyrdom, but in addition, tales of the deaths of those ...