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Historical Health & The Body Reading Group

17 July 2025, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Drawing of two human skeletons

Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Finn Manders & Katherine Wills

Location

Wellcome Collection (Viewing Room)
183 Euston Road
London
NW1 2BE

Article - Read in Advance

Our article for this week's session will be Heather Taylor's (2025) ''An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost': 'Non-medical' Charms and experimenta  in Medieval Medical Manuscripts'.

This reading group is run by UCL PhD students Finn Manders (Wellcome collaborative doctoral student) & Katherine Wills.

Open to PhD students, ECRs and other interested historical researchers. For information on upcoming sessions, dates, and reading material, please join the mailing list http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/HEALTHBODYREADINGWELLCOME.