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    16 Dec 2020

    For the safety of our staff and visitors we will be extending our closure to visitors until further notice. In the meantime, we invite you to explore our collections and Stories online.

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  2. 13 hours ago

    This is the final song of How to Be Held, and the final post of the project How to Hold, Behold, and Be Held. The project archive will be on view until midnight on Sunday 28th February here:

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  3. 13 hours ago

    How to Be Held: songs of self-soothing responds to anonymous contributors who shared the lyrics or riffs they use to get through tough times. This is the third strand of ‘How to Hold, Behold, and Be Held’ by .

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  4. 13 hours ago

    Spotlight on this track by based on remembered lyrics from Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’. Track 9 of 9 in the series How to Be Held.

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  5. Feb 24

    For many of us, this has been a year with very little physical human contact. Historian Agnese Reginaldo explores the fundamental importance of touch to human health, and the adaptations we have made to keep ourselves safe.

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  6. Feb 22

    Audio descriptions and biographies of the artists can be found in the track notes on soundcloud.

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  7. Feb 22

    How to Be Held: songs of self-soothing responds to anonymous contributors who shared the lyrics or riffs they use to get through tough times. This is the third strand of ‘How to Hold, Behold, and Be Held’ by

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  8. Feb 22

    Spotlight on this track by and based on the music playing when Marty’s dad danced in the film ‘Back to the Future’. Track 8 of 9 in the series How to Be Held.

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  9. Feb 22

    Join our 'Marginalised Voices and Lived Experience of Health' dissertation inspiration session at 3pm this Wednesday where we'll focus on unearthing the perspectives of people with lived experience of illness from our collections.

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  10. Feb 19

    Audio descriptions and biographies of the artists can be found in the track notes on soundcloud.

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  11. Feb 19

    How to Be Held: songs of self-soothing responds to anonymous contributors who shared the lyrics or riffs they use to get through tough times. This is the third strand of ‘How to Hold, Behold, and Be Held’ by .

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  12. Feb 19

    Spotlight on this track by based on ‘Ooh Child’ by the Five Stairsteps. Track 7 of 9 in the series How to Be Held.

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  13. Feb 19

    See more of Ruby Elliot's wonderful webcomics on Instagram at:

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  14. Feb 19

    What's your favourite "getting me through this" thing right now?

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  15. Feb 19

    We'd love to know more about how you search for images on Wellcome Collection. Please help us by taking this 5 minute survey.

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  16. Feb 18

    How a 17th-century physician followed his ‘gut feeling’ and proposed a link between the emotions and the stomach, which seems to echo the latest medical research on the brain–gut connection.

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  17. Feb 18

    By bringing background noise to the fore, Adjoa Wiredu has been discovering that we can learn new things about ourselves and our environment.

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  18. Feb 16

    Audio descriptions and biographies of the artists can be found in the track notes on soundcloud.

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  19. Feb 16

    How to Be Held: songs of self-soothing responds to anonymous contributors who shared the lyrics or riffs they use to get through tough times. This is the third strand of ‘How to Hold, Behold, and Be Held’ by

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  20. Feb 16

    Spotlight on this track by based on ‘Aslan’s Theme’ from the TV show Narnia. Track 6 of 9 in the series How to Be Held.

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  21. Feb 16

    Join our 'Interrogating Colonial Collections' dissertation inspiration session at 3pm this Thursday where we'll explore the colonial legacies that exist in our collections, through materials such as South Asian manuscripts and archival material.

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