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The ‘Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection’ display features a rare medieval birth scroll and explores protective practices and beliefs around pregnancy, childbirth and infertility past and present.

Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.

From hydroelectric dams to pylons, the 20th-century architecture of electricity inspired a new kind of awe.

Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.

For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.

Fire in the sky has always exerted a hold on our imagination, even as early scientists unlocked the secrets of atmospheric electricity.

With the news of a sequel in development, Russell Dornan explores parallels between ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and Wellcome Collection.

There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.

In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.

Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?

Mystery and controversy surround the dark-skinned religious icon who represents the Virgin Mary throughout the Catholic world.

The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.

Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

This common condiment was once very valuable and, until surprisingly recently, used as a versatile medicine.

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.

Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality.