The Latest Breaking News from Wellcome Collection

Historical Jain manuscripts are leaving London’s Wellcome Collection – but not going to India

The prized collection is going to Dharmanath Network in Jain Studies at the University of Birmingham

The Independent UK · May 19

UK museum to return over 2000 historic manuscripts to Jain community

The Wellcome Collection in London is returning over 2,000 Jain manuscripts to the Jain community. These sacred texts, held for over a century, span centuries and cover religion, literature, and medicine. The collection will initially move to the University of Birmingham. This landmark restitution marks a collaborative effort to ensure…

The Economic Times · May 15

Drama, desire and Darth Maul: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

The Wellcome Collection explores how we experience ageing while Zendaya and Robert Pattinson bring The Drama - here are this week's particularly eggcellent highlights.

Euronews · Mar 30

Victorian Britain had its own anti-vaxxers – and they helped bring down a government

As the 1906 UK general election results rolled in, it became clear that the Conservative party, after 11 years in power, had suffered one of the most disastrous defeats in its history. Of 402 Conservative MPs, 251 lost their seats, including their candidate for prime minister, defeated on a 22.5%…

The Conversation · Dec 18, 2023

‘The course changed my life’: three graduates on how studying at the Royal College of Art launched their careers

From curating The Cult of Beauty exhibition, to designing products for Google, RCA graduates explain how their studies led to their dream jobs

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2023

The Cult of Beauty review – delusional, divine, deadly…

From wife-grinding windmills to pure gold serums, this riveting show traces humanity’s obsession with beauty through time and cultures with a keen sense of the ludicrous and the shocking

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023

The Cult of Beauty at the Wellcome Collection review: we've been obsessing about this for centuries

The museum's new show encourages us to disapprove of our preoccupation with beauty standards, but it's been part of society for ever

Evening Standard · Oct 25, 2023

Hundreds of cultural treasures seized from Ethiopia found in London

Plundered gems located in capital as debate goes on over their return

Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2023

Turnips: how Britain fell out of love with the much-maligned vegetable

Environment secretary Thérèse Coffey’s recent suggestion that Britons should turn to turnips following tomato shortages did not go down as she might have hoped.

The Conversation · Mar 2, 2023

Rwanda plan is legal but may still not fly, says Labour’s Emily Thornberry

Labour’s Emily Thornberry has questioned whether Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda relocation policy for migrants will actually go ahead, despite being given the green light by the High Court yesterday.

Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2022