archives – the polyphony

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Secret Items in the Wellcome Historical Medical Collections

Shelley Angelie Saggar writes about the complexities of working with secret, sacred, and sensitive items in Wellcome Historical Medical Collections and their links to colonial histories of acquisition.

“Don’t tell me I’m mad. This is the truth”

Elena Carter and Anthony Day, archivists at Wellcome Collection, give a candid account of their work cataloguing the ‘profoundly personal’ archive of artist and mental health survivor Audrey Amiss. As archivists, we spend our days making sense of the papers […]