Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This panel discussion explores how lands and bodies are sites of simultaneous trauma, drawing on lived experiences of solastalgia, the emotional or existential suffering caused by environmental change. Speakers from different geographical hubs will draw on lived experiences and global health perspectives.
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This panel discussion explores how lands and bodies are sites of simultaneous trauma, drawing on lived experiences of solastalgia, the emotional or existential suffering caused by environmental change. Speakers from different geographical hubs will draw on lived experiences and global health perspectives.
BSL interpretation for this event was a live interpretation of the content on the above date and time. The interpretation may contain signs that were appropriate at the time, and may fall out of use/context after the fact.
Please find us on Facebook: facebook.com/wellcomecollection
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/explorewellcome
See us on Instagram: instagram.com/wellcomecollection

![5 things to avoid when you meet a disabled person
Doctor, disability activist, and author Grace Spence Green (@gracesg) on some of her dos and donts when you meet a disabled person.
What else would you add to this list? Tell us in the comments.
Grace Spence Greens book To Exist as I Am: A Doctors Notes on Recovery and Radical Acceptance is available to buy at Wellcome Collections bookshop, online, and wherever else you get your books 📚
[Alt text: Were watching a video of Grace speaking directly to the camera in our Reading Room – a nice, cosy, space with books, lounge chairs and bean bags. She has long brown hair and wears red lipstick, round yellow glasses, and a sweater-vest-shirt combo. She is sitting in her wheelchair with one leg crossed over the opposite knee.]
#DisabilityAdvocate #DisabilityHistoryMonth #GraceSpenceGreen #Medicine 5 things to avoid when you meet a disabled person](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6f3fg9Ggav8/mqdefault.jpg)
![secrets of our library
Librarian Alexandra shows us one of her favourite things in our collection: a red squirrel scampering around the page of a 15th century book.
Alt text: In this reel, Alexandra - who has brown hair and wears a green and black stripy top - stands framed by the hanging lamps of our Reading Room. She shows us details from an antique-looking book, including a beautifully drawn red squirrel at the bottom of a page decorated with a design of curling leaves, stems and petals.
Credit: Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae / [Angelus Carletus].
Angelo Carletti, 1411-1495.
Date: 28 Aug. 1488
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![How did Victorians stop their moustaches getting wet while swilling tea? #shorts
Obviously youd use a teacup with a moustache guard. Victorian ingenuity 🥸
To find out more about the Victorian gentleman’s grooming routine, head to our YouTube for our full-length tutorial with Dominic Skinner, and watch him transform into the spitting image of his great great uncle, Thomas Hardy.
And if you’re London-based, come see some a moustache guard in its real-life glory at The Cult of Beauty. Our latest exhibition running until 28th April 2024.
#TheCultofBeauty #beauty #malegrooming #beardstyle #beards #moustaches #wigs #shorts #shortvideo #glowup #bbcglowup #dominicskinner #dominicskinnermua
[Video alt text: We see Dominic Skinner – makeup artist and judge on the BBC show Glow Up – seated on a stool against a blue background and drinking from a pink cup while a make-up artist preens his scalp]
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![What beauty means to Philosophy Tube’s Abigail Thorn: The Cult of Beauty at Wellcome Collection
Join Abigail Thorn, actress, writer, and creator of Philosophy Tube, as she takes us on a tour around Wellcome Collection, a museum in London covering health and human experience.
The focus? A free temporary exhibition called “The Cult of Beauty”, which delves into the meaning of beauty and its evolution throughout history.
While highlighting some of the historical objects and artworks that resonate with her, Abigail reflects on beauty ideals past and present, positive and negative – how society is moulded by them, and how they have given shape to her own personal feelings about beauty.
This video has been made to accompany The Cult of Beauty exhibition – showing at Wellcome Collection until 28 April 2024.
Find out more on our website: https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/ZJ1zCxAAACMAczPA
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Ancient beauty and Queen Nefertiti
01:42 - Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful women
02:28 - Beauty and ageing
02:44 - Alchemy and the Ripley Scroll
03:25 - What would Barbie look like if she was life size?
03:39 - Beauty as a moral duty, pseudomorality and Heather Widdows
05:40 - Renaissance beauty ingredients
06:07 - Beauty and social media
06:35 - Sleeping Hermaphroditus
07:22 - Hopeful works in The Cult of Beauty
08:25: What permissible beauty means to Abigail Thorn
08:40 - Conclusion
#TheCultOfBeauty #WellcomeCollection
Music: Nkisi, Lament II (instrumental)
Artwork credits:
Bust of Queen Nefertiti, originally c. 1351–34 BCE, Clarke and Davies, 1912–28 CE (reproduction), Wellcome Collection / Science Museum Group
Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful women, Paulus Fürst c.1650, Wellcome Collection
Wax vanitas depicting life and death, modelled on Queen Elizabeth I, 1700s, Wellcome Collection / Science Museum Group
Ripley Scroll, Unknown maker, after George Ripley, c. 1600, Wellcome Collection
Lifesize Barbie and Oriol, Adel Rootstein Ltd., 2009, Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden. Social media: https://www.instagram.com/dhmdresden/
It makes no sense to be beautiful if no one is ugly, 2023, by Makeupbrutalism, commissioned by Wellcome Collection. Social media: https://www.instagram.com/makeupbrutalism
2 Reasons You’re Tired All the Time, Juno Calypso, 2013, Courtesy of the artist and T J Boulting and Slendertone II, Juno Calypso, 2015, Courtesy of the artist and T J Boulting. Social media: https://www.instagram.com/junocalypso/
Beauty Sensorium, 2023, Renaissance Goo x Baum & Leahy, commissioned by Wellcome Collection. https://www.instagram.com/baumleahy and https://www.instagram.com/@profjillburke
‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, Beauty unravelled in the virtual scroll’, Xcessive Aesthetics, 2023
Sleeping Hermaphroditus, 2nd century CE (original), Wellcome Collection / Science Museum Group
‘Perhaps We are all Fictions in the Eye of the Beholder’, Xu Yang, 2021, Courtesy of the artist. Social media: https://www.instagram.com/_xu.yang_/
Permissible Beauty, 2022, © RCMG / Soup Co [film stills] / © Robert Taylor [production stills] / Reproduced with permission of RCMG, University of Leicester/ Soup Co. [new photography] https://www.instagram.com/permissiblebeauty
(Almost) all of my dead mother’s beautiful things, Narcissister, 2023, Commissioned by Wellcome Collection
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![60-second exhibition tour with artist Jason Wilsher Mills #shorts #art #contemporaryart #childhood
For 60-seconds, artist Jason Wilsher-Mills takes us back in time to tell the story of how he became an artist.
Our exhibition space has become a ward in a Wakefield hospital at the dawn of the 1980s. As a child, Jason’s immune system began attacking itself which paralysed him for several years. Through Jason’s brilliantly creative mind’s eye, these formative experiences are reimagined in bold colours and joyously grotesque cartoon designs.
Join us on this exploration of disability, imagination and the power of art. Find out more here: wellcome.info/jason-wilsher-mills
[Alt Text: A video reel that floats around our Jason Wilsher-Mill’s exhibition showing his various sculptures and 2D artworks, among them are small green army men carrying virus particles, vibrantly patterned Doc Martens and an Olympic runner with a TV for a head.
It also shows footage of the immune system, snaps of Sebastian Coe at that famous race and sped up footage of Jason leafing through a sketch book full of his grotesque and wonderful designs.]
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