Blogs

Museum Studies student Yuewei Wang makes a surprising discovery in a medical history collection, a work of art by one of China's most influential artists of the 20th century.

In the past, items for the museum were not always collected as carefully as we would today. Read on for the intriguing story of the portrait of RCP Fellow Richard Morton – or is it?

Did Chinese 'diagnostic dolls' really have a medical purpose? Museum studies student from the University of Leicester, Yuewei Wang explores this question. 

Discover the how and why of John Caius' reshaping of the RCP and its impact on the centuries that followed in our new video with Harveian Librarian of the RCP Dr Louella Vaughan.

Celebrating the career of Joseph Orleans Mends Pobee (1930 – 2008): doctor, professor of medicine, researcher, fellow of the RCP and founding secretary general of the West African College of Physicians.

Remembering Abdel Halim Mohamed Halim: doctor, leader, educator and first Sudanese fellow of the RCP

In 1918 RCP president Norman Moore marked the RCP’s 400th birthday by giving a rare and historic medical book – a copy of the Rosa Anglica once owned by John Chambre – to the library.

What does a 17th century recipe book contain? Archives Manager Pamela Forde explains how we joined the transcribathon event earlier this year that saw Lady Sedley's recipe book from our archives deciphered and transcribed by online volunteers. The transcribed text is now available to read.

Our picture library service remains open, with thousands of unique images representing the history of medicine in art, literature and artefacts, available for commercial publications and digital downloads.

Catch up with our fascinating event exploring the historical and modern-day development of vaccination comparing the first and only human disease eradicated by vaccination, smallpox, and today’s global challenge, COVID-19.