Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

  • Wellcome Trust; 1936-
Date:
1910-2022
Reference:
WT
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

The archive documents the formation, development and work of the Wellcome Trust as an independent charitable foundation dedicated to improving health through research from its inception in 1936 to the present day. It provides evidence of the Trust's international role in the landscape of health and charts the delivery of its mission and areas of interest through time, including pharmacology and tropical medicine; veterinary medicine; the history of medicine as an academic discipline; clinical trials; mental health; public engagement and infectious diseases.

The archive contains records relating to the governance and management of the Trust, it's grant funding work and internally funded activities carried out to further the Trust's charitable aims, including policy research and advocacy, supporting science education, public engagement and museum, library and collecting activities. The archive also contains records of the Trust's investments function and other support activities, such as finance, communications and media and public relations, as well as material that documents staff activities and experiences at the Trust.

Where original file names have been retained, these are indicated by quotation marks in the catalogue titles.

Uncatalogued material
This collection contains both catalogued and uncatalogued materials. A summary of the uncatalogued materials in this collection is provided below under 'Accruals'. Section E of this collection is also currently uncatalogued. This section contains papers of the Hague Club, 1971-1976 (10 boxes) and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, 1941-1991 (11 boxes). Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more information or to request access to uncatalogued material.

Publication/Creation

1910-2022

Physical description

Catalogued: 1,444 boxes; 10 O/S items; approx 5,924 digital files Uncatalogued: Approx 4,021 boxes; 3 O/S items; 19,400 digital files; 1,308 photographic slides

Arrangement

Records have been grouped together into sections based on the broad functions and activities that they represent. This arrangement is intended to accommodate organisational change over time. The Wellcome Trust has gone through various reorganisations since its inception, whilst its core functions have remained largely the same.

Section A: Governance and corporate management


Section B: Support activities
Section C: Grant funding
Section D: Direct activities
Section E: External interests - This section has not yet been catalogued. Please refer to 'Description' for an overview of material in this section and information on requesting access to uncatalogued material.

At series level, and occasionally at item level, catalogue records have been linked to "authority files" to capture information about individuals, departments and other entities related to those records. Where listed, click on any of the "Associated Person Entries" beneath the catalogue description to view information and related entities.

Biographical note

The Wellcome Trust is a British registered charity established by the will of Sir Henry Wellcome in 1936.


Addresses
c.1946-1958 28 Portman Square, London
1958-1972 52 Queen Anne Street, London
1972-1992 1 Park Square West, London
1992-2004 Wellcome Building, 185 Euston Road, London
2004-present Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London

Activity
The Wellcome Trust is a British registered charity established by the will of Sir Henry Wellcome. Upon his death in 1936 ownership of 100 per cent of the shares of the pharmaceutical company Wellcome Foundation passed to the newly formed Wellcome Trust. This income was to be used to advance medical research and support the understanding of its history.

The Trust's early years were spent winding up Sir Henry Wellcome's affairs, administering the bequests included in the will and re-structuring Wellcome Foundation which had previously been largely under Henry Wellcome's personal control. The Trustees were also responsible for paying the Estate Duty which absorbed most of the Trust's income during its first five years. Initial grant giving activities focused on Henry's main interests: pharmacy and pharmacology, veterinary and tropical medicine. The first tropical research unit to be funded was the Wellcome Research Laboratories at Thessaloniki (later Nairobi), which the Trust began funding in 1938. The Trust also endowed medical university chairs, such as in Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1945) and Parmacology at the School of Pharmacy, University of London (1946). Also popular were the Wellcome Research Travel Grants, introduced in the 1950s, which provided expenses to UK scientists travelling abroad and to foreign scientists visiting the UK. In its first 20 years, the Wellcome Trust gave out £1.2 million in charitable funding though its activities were limited first by its obligations to pay the Estate Duty and then by the postwar financial problems of Wellcome Foundation, which came close to bankruptcy before recovering and steadily growing from the late 1950

Under the terms of Sir Henry Wellcome's will the Trust had an obligation to support the understanding of the history of medicine and in the early years this was achieved by developing the Wellcome Historical Medcial Museum and Library. By the 1960s the Trustees were keen to fulfil their obligations through grant funding and in 1966 established the country's first history of medicine university department at University College London (UCL).

By 1966 Wellcome Foundation had not only recovered from its financial problems but had become highly profitable after several lucrative drug discoveries were marketed. This gave the Wellcome Trust much greater scope to develop its funding activities and in 1966 the Trust introduced its first funding policy, articulating what was and was not in scope and setting out new funding streams. The focus was to be on filling national funding gaps and on supporting individuals rather providing funding for buildings and equipment. Until this point, all applications had been considered by the Board of Trustees and the Trust administration was managed by a small number of employees. The focus on personal support resulted in a large increase in the number of grant applications received, leading the Trust to expand its staff and introduce a more sophisticated organisational structure. Advisory panels were introduced to help the Trustees judge applications and the first Wellcome Trust Director, Peter Williams, was appointed in 1967.

The Trust continued to grow throughout the 1970s and early 1980s and its charitable output increased year on year. Additional overseas units were funded to support the World Health Organization's Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and the Trust continued to encourage interest in the history of medicine through the establishment of several history of medicine units at universities including Oxford (1972) and Manchester (1986). By 1985 the Trust was dissatisfied with its arrangement with Wellcome Foundation. Despite being valued at £1 billion, the Foundation dividends only granted the Trust charitable expenditure of around £26.5 million a year and the Trust Chairman, Sir David Steel, believed greater income could be gained through well managed investments. In addition, Steel was aware of the dangers of relying on one source of income and was keen to diversify the Trust's portfolio. The Board of Trustees agreed and in 1986 Wellcome Foundation was renamed Wellcome Plc and floated on stock market as a private limited company. Twenty-five per cent of shares were sold, leaving the Wellcome Trust as the majority shareholder. A further thirty-five per cent of shares were later sold in 1992. As a result, the Wellcome Trust's income doubled and it became one of the world's largest grant giving charities. As things stood, the Trustees were liable for the entire share sale worth £2.3 billion and so during the 1992 sale a new corporate entity was formed, Wellcome Trust Ltd. This private limited company became the sole Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, and the Trustees became Governors. The Governors, aided by the Wellcome Trust senior management, now had a role similar to that of a board of directors managing a company. The Trust's staffing levels also grew and a new organisational structure was implemented to allow the Trust to maintain and grow its activities. In January 1995 the Board of Governors sold the majority of the remainder of their shares in Wellcome Plc to Glaxo Plc, allowing a takeover to form Glaxo Wellcome Plc (now GlaxoSmithKline).

Asset diversification and shrewd in-house investment led to a long period of growth for the Trust, resulting in a huge increase in the Wellcome Trust's funding activities and its involvement in various large scale initiatives such as establishing the Sanger Institute, which sequenced one third of the human genome, and co-funding the Diamond Light Source synchrotron and UK Biobank. It also refurbished the Wellcome Building at 185 Euston Road and developed the library and public engagement facilities, culminating in the opening of Wellcome Collection in 2007.

The Wellcome Trust's growth in the 1990s put pressure on accommodation and in the early 2000s the Trust purchased land adjacent to the Wellcome Building and construction on the Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road (named after former Chairman Roger Gibbs) was completed in 2004. The Wellcome Building was given over to the Wellcome Collection and Library and included a conference centre and public engagement space.

On 3 January 2019 the Trust opened its first international office in Berlin, Germany to enable it to work more closely with international partners.

Internal structures
Board of Trustees, 1936-1992
Board of Governors, 1992-present

Chairpersons
1936-1938 GHH LyalL
1938-1960 Sir Henry Dale
1960-1965 Rt Hon Lord Piercy
1965-1980 Rt Hon Lord Franks [PC, OM, GCMG, KCB, DL]
1980- Rt Hon Lord Armstong of Sanderstead [GCB, MVO]
1982-1990 Sir David Steel
1990-1999 Sir Roger Gibbs
1999-2007 Sir Dominic Cadbury
2007-2015 Sir William Castell
2015-2021 Eliza Manningham-Buller
2021-present Julia Gillard

Directors
1967-1991 Peter Williams
1991-1998 Bridget Ogilvie
1998-2003 Michael Dexter
2003-2013 Sir Mark Walport
2013-2023 Jeremy Farrar

Chief Executive Officer
2023-2024 Paul Schrier (Interim CEO)
2024-present John-Arne Røttingen

Terms of use

This collection has been partially catalogued and the catalogued part is available to library members. Some items have access restrictions which are explained in the item-level catalogue records. Requests to view uncatalogued material are considered on a case by case basis. Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more details.

Accruals note

Some additions (or 'accruals') to this collection have not yet been catalogued. Brief summaries of these materials are provided below. To request access to these uncatalogued materials, or to find out more about them, please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org. Some items may have access restrictions which will be explained to you if you request them.

Acc 2137: A small collection of books formerly owned by the first Director of the Wellcome Trust, Dr Peter Williams, including some items relating to Wellcome (20th century) 3 boxes, 1 print.

Acc 2397: Wellcome Trust grant files, c.1300 boxes.

Acc 2432: Papers of the Hague Club (1970s) 3 boxes.

Acc 2442: Material relating to the Wellcome Collection exhibition "Bedlam: the asylum and beyond" (15 September 2016-15 January 2017), 3 files.

Acc 2443: Wellcome Collection promotional materials (2000s-2010s), 2 folders.

Acc 2444: Wellcome Trust medal dies, 1 box.

Acc 2445: Printed Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Collection ephemera (2017-2018), 1 folder.

Acc 2446: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus press records (1990s), 8 betacam tapes, 1 VHS, 1 brochure.

Acc 2449: Wellcome Trust Public Engagement funded outputs (c.2001-c.2015), 2 files, 1 box.

Acc 2464: Printed and digital materials relating to DAYLIGHTING, a four-day programme of events which took place at Wellcome Collection between Thursday 18 and Sunday 21 October 2018, exploring the interconnections between art, activism, performance, politics, health and print in a live printing workshop. At the core of DAYLIGHTING's events was the production of DAYLIGHT, a collaborative artwork in the form of a newspaper that explores the presence of women through their art, thinking and speculations on the body. DAYLIGHTING was curated by artists Amy Sharrocks, Clare Qualmann and Madeline Hodge (2018), 1 oversize folder.

Acc 2468: Printed Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Collection ephemera (2018), 1 folder.

Acc 2470: Wellcome Collection Medicine Man gallery interpretation guide (2015).

Acc 2473: Colour sectional drawing of an 'Artesian Tube Well ... at the Wellcome Foundation Research Building. Euston Road, N.W.1.' (1931).

Acc 2475: Wellcome Images departmental records and analogue corporate photography (c.1990s-2000), 6 boxes, 33 binders, 3 albums.

Acc 2479: Contagious Cities on BBC Radio 3 essays (2018), 22 digital files.

Acc 2486: Louise Quarmby portrait and interview for Wellcome Collection's 2018 'Teeth' exhibition (2018), 2 digital files.

Acc 2487: Records relating to Wellcome Trust financial activity and office procedures (c.1980s), 1 box.

Acc 2491: Wellcome Trust Science Policy Information Newsletter, issue 1 to 1221 [final issue] (2008-2015), c.3,000 digital files.

Acc 2492: Digital files used in the planning and development of "Wellcome's World", a dedicated part of the former Wellcome Library website (2010s), 19 digital files.

Acc 2496: Digital files relating to the planning, implementation and evaluation of Wellcome Collection exhibitions (2010s), 4,929 digital files.

Acc 2497: Wellcome Collection exhibition programmes, guides and publications (2010s), 1 folder.

Acc 2499: Wellcome Library departmental reviews (1991-2003), 10 digital files.

Acc 2517: Internal and external Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Collection printed materials (2012-2019), 1 folder.

Acc 2518: Wellcome Trust intranet material (2010-2015), 2 digital files.

Acc 2519: Internal and external Wellcome Trust reports on Education, Policy, the Wellcome Global Monitor, the Wellcome Success Framework and the Wellcome Trust staff survey (2001-2019), 338 digital files.

Acc 2534: Digital audio recording featuring artist Anthony Gormley speaking about the concept of 'the body'. The recording was used in Wellcome Collection's exhibition 'Medicine Now' (c.2006), 1 digital file.

Acc 2535: Physical and digital records relating to Sheep Pig Goat, a research project commissioned by Wellcome Collection as part of 'Making Nature', a year-long exploration of humans' relationship with the natural world. The project was devised by arts organisation Fevered Sleep and took the form of a series of improvised performance-based encounters between dancers, musicians, sheep, pigs and goats (c.2017), 1 box, 91 digital files.

Acc 2553: Departmental records, grey literature and published materials relating to the activities of the Wellcome Library and the Wellcome Trust Information Service, including administrative files for "What the papers say". Also includes staff training and development resources and a small number of Wellcome Trust records, Wellcome Centre records and Wellcome-funded outputs (1990s-2010s), 7 boxes, 217 digital files.

Acc 2557: Physical and digital records relating to Mosaic (https://mosaicscience.com/), a digital publication from the Wellcome Trust (2010-2019), 1 box, 1,247 digital files.

Acc 2567: Digital files and printed ephemera relating to the Wellcome Trust Contagious Cities international collaborative project (2018-2019), 1 folder, 250 digital files.

Acc 2571: Transcripts for three witness seminars (comprising two volumes) on transformations and regulation in the health system of Maharashtra, India since the 1980s. The seminars were part of a research project funded by the UK Joint Health Systems Research Initiative, including support from the Wellcome Trust (2019), 1 folder.

Acc 2572: Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Collection printed ephemera, 2015-2019. 1 folder.

Acc 2581: Audience responses from a live programming event run as part of Wellcome Collection's "Misbehaving Bodies" exhibition, on display from 30 May 2019 to 26 January 2020 (2019-2020), 2 folders, 2 digital files.

Acc 2584: Wellcome Trust Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (CMAC) and Western Manuscripts department (WMMS) files (1970s-2000s), 1 box.

Acc 2589: Internal Wellcome Trust communications regarding the emerging COVID-19 infection, (c. Jan-March 2020), 8 digital files, 1 poster.

Acc 2595: Wellcome Trust COVID-19 building closure digital photographs (March 2020), 11 digital files.

Acc 2596: Digital recordings of the Wellcome Trust Cloud9Online staff chat show (20 March-11 December 2020), 26 digital files.

Acc 2598: Reports, news and views, press releases and webpages captured from the Wellcome Trust's website (https://wellcome.ac.uk/) (2000s-2020), 1,148 digital files.

Acc 2601: Two zines exploring life during the first UK Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, created by a Wellcome staff member and her daughter (2020), 2 items.

Acc 2602: Digital diary entry by a Wellcome staff member which explores their personal experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and their adjustment to working from home during the closure of Wellcome's buildings (2020), 1 digital file.

Acc 2603: Records regarding the development and launch of the Wellcome Trusts's first Trans Inclusion Policy and Trans Inclusion Guidance (2019-2020), 355 digital files.

Acc 2604: Digital photograph taken by a Wellcome staff member of public transport in London, social distancing signage, during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), 1 digital file.

Acc 2606: Forum piece written by a Wellcome staff member for Wellcome's (then named) BAME network in response to the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic (2020), 1 digital file.

Acc 2607: "Mark Thomas's lockdown check-up", a six-part podcast series commissioned by Wellcome Collection and written and presented by Mark Thomas plus records relating to the planning and promotion of the series (June-September 2020), 14 digital files.

Acc 2610: Digital PDF artwork for Wellcome Collection's "What's On" leaflet, covering April to June 2020. This PDF was created Jan-March 2020 but was not distributed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and closure of Wellcome's buildings (March 2020), 1 digital file.

Acc 2616: Digital files and emails created and collated by Simon Chaplin in his roles as Head of Wellcome Library (Feb 2010-Oct 2014) and then Wellcome Trust Director of Culture and Society (Oct 2014-Aug 2020), 643 digital files.

Acc 2618: Wellcome Library Wordpress blog XML and CSV exports containing blog content and associated metadata (c.2012-2018), 2 digital files.

Acc 2619: Digital video recording of a Wellcome Collection Inspiring Our Practice session titled "The Reading Room Frieze" plus transcript and intranet article (April 2021), 3 digital files.

Acc 2621: Analogue photographic material and cataloguing metadata created by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Wellcome Medical Photographic Library, later inherited and managed by Wellcome Images from 2007 to 2017. Comprises "F" (Microfilm) series reels and cataloguing metadata; "L" (Library) series negatives and cataloguing metadata; "M" (Museum) series glass plate negatives; and "V" (Videodisc) series negatives and transparencies. 790 glass plate negative boxes; 88 negative boxes; 47 lever arch files; 25 ring binders; 9 filing cabinets; 7 volumes; 5 transfer boxes; 2 trays.

Acc 2624: Physical and digital records created as part of Heart N Soul's residency at The Hub at Wellcome Collection (Oct 2018 - Jun 2021); a research project exploring ideas around human value, difference and love from the perspective of people with learning disabilities and autism. (2018-2021), 1 outsize box, 2 outsize folders and 897 digital files.

Acc 2625: Episodes 1-4 of the Wellcome Trust's LGBTQ+ staff network's podcast series and accompanying intranet articles (2020-2021), 8 digital files.

Acc 2628: Women of Wellcome 'Covid life' profiles, a series of intranet articles in which women working across the Wellcome Trust share their experiences and perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), 25 digital files.

Acc 2635: Khairani Barokka in Conversation with Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz. Digital recording of a Wellcome Collection Live Programme event broadcast on YouTube on 17 June 2021, which discusses Barokka's Wellcome-commissioned work 'Molekuler' (2021), 1 digital file.

Acc 2640: Wellcome Trust Strategy SharePoint files. Digital files relating to the development and implementation of the Wellcome Trust's new organisational strategy in 2021 (2021), 1,214 digital files.

Acc 2643: Wellcome Trust organisational records, transferred from Wellcome's records management function, relating to the following areas and activities: Corporate governance; policy and strategic planning; public engagement funding; science funding; translation work; communications, publishing and branding; Wellcome's library and museum; public programming and exhibitions; Culture & Society division; history of medicine academia; and Wellcome Trust buildings and facilities (1990s-2000s with some earlier material), 1,181 boxes.

Acc 2645: Wellcome Trust Strategy Review and Organisation Design: Digital files relating to the development, implementation and communication of the Wellcome Trust's new strategy and the restructuring of the organisation to support the new strategy (2021), 592 digital files.

Acc 2650: Digital organisational records relating to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Wellcome Trust and Wellcome's internal and external activities in response to the pandemic. Comprises internal and external communications; research policy and advocacy reports; and internal policies, procedures and guidance for staff. The records capture changes to Wellcome's activities and ways of working during the pandemic, including the closure of Wellcome's buildings and the shift to remote working; provisions for staff wellbeing and safety; and Wellcome-funded Covid research, partnerships, policy and advocacy work, and communications (2020-2022), 557 digital files.

Acc 2655: Mark Walport speeches and presentations (c.2003-2004), 180 digital files.

Acc 2662: Wellcome Trust Board of Governors digital meeting papers (December 2004), 27 digital files.

Acc 2663: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus architectural slides (c.2000s), 1 file.

Acc 2671: Wellcome Images 'D' and 'S' series cataloguing metadata, 2 volumes and 2 digital files.

Acc 2672: Inventory and valuation of Wellcome's collections prepared by Sotheby's (August 1981), 1 folder.

Acc 2675: Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Collection printed ephemera (2010-2020), 1 folder.

Acc 2682: Digital files relating to the activities and running of the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) whilst its Secretariat was based at the Wellcome Trust (2014-2021), 989 digital files.

Acc 2687: Four digital films comissioned by Wellcome Collection on the theme of encountering materials in Wellcome's collections, created by Unlimited artists fang0.co and moondept.co; Rhiannon Armstrong; Nye Russell-Thompson aka StammerMouth; and Kristina Veasey. Includes original versions and accessible versions with BSL and subtitles (c.2022), 9 digital files.

Acc 2690: Wellcome Collection and Wellcome Trust exhibition posters, visitors' comment books and printed and published material (1990s-2021), 27 posters, 1 information panel and 1 1/2 boxes.

Acc 2704: Assorted Wellcome Collection printed materials including heat-activated portrait of Henry Wellcome by Luke Jerram (2007).

Acc 2707: Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Collection printed and published materials including exhibition guides and catalogues plus an audio recording of Wellcome Collection's Gala Launch Press Conference, 20 June 2007 (1968-2022), 4 folders, 1 presentation box, 2 digital files.

Acc 2708: Wellcome Trust organisational records formerly held in the records management system. Comprises records relating to the following functions and current and legacy departments: Biomedical Ethics, Communication & Education (later Consultation & Education), Conferences & meetings, Exhibitions, Finance, Governance and corporate management, Grants Management, Investments, Medicine, Society & History (MSH), Diamond Light Source, Policy Research in Science and Medicine unit (PRISM) (later the Policy Unit), Premises and Facilities, Press & Public Affairs, Public Engagement, Public Programmes, Publishing, Science Funding, Technology Transfer Division (TTD), Wellcome Museum of Medical Science (WMMS), Tropical Medicine Resource (TMR), Wellcome Centre for Medical Science (WCMS), Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (WIHM), Wellcome Tropical Institute (WTI), and the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus (1920s - 2010s), 585 boxes.

Acc 2710: Assorted digital organisational records relating to: the closure of wellcomelibrary.org, created by the Towards One Website project group, 2020-2021; the Wellcome Trust Future Ways of Working project, including guidance for staff and internal communications relating to FWoW, a project that aimed to explore hybrid working approaches following the re-opening of Wellcome's headquarters after the covid-19 pandemic, 2020-2022; the Research Ecosystems in Africa and Asia priority area - published reports and internal Trustnet articles, 2017-2021; Wellcome's 'What's Occuring' newsletter, created by the Internal Communications team, 2018-2021; and 'Hear from Jeremy' Covid-19 pandemic video updates for Wellcome Trust staff given by Jeremy Farrar, 2020-2021 (2017-2022), 205 digital files.

Acc 2711: Digital records of the Understanding Patient Data (UPD) programme, which was supported by Wellcome and based at its headquarters in London until January 2023. Includes folders relating to communications, community, early stage ideas, events, projects, policy, governance and operations, and the wind down of the programme at Wellcome in 2023 (2016-2022) 1,078 digital files.

Acc 2717: Three interview recordings in WAV format with the donors who volunteered HIV+ blood for the creation of Basse Stittgen's artwork 'Blood Objects', commissioned by Wellcome Collection in 2019 (2019), 3 digital files.

Acc 2722: Records realting to a Youth Programme project exploring food production, waste, climate change and milk. The project was run in connection with the Wellcome Collection exhibition 'Milk' (30 March 2023 – 10 September 2023) (2023), 1 O/S folder, 2 digital files.

Acc 2732: Papers collated by Jenny Haynes, former Head of Collections & Research, relating to the management and development of the Wellcome Institute, the Wellcome Library and Wellcome Collection (1980s-2020s), 1 box.

Acc 2737: Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Collection printed and published material including exhibition guides; Wellcome Collection website research; and materials created in connection with Wellcome Collection's 'Dirt' and 'Miracles and Charms' exhibitions (2000s-2010s), 3 folders, 1 A3 portfolio.

Acc 2739: Wellcome Trust schools kits and classroom resources created for two major public engagement initiatives: The Great Plant Hunt and In the Zone (2009-2012), 1 folder, 2 O/S boxes.

Acc 2743: Model of the Wellcome Tropical Research floating laboratory (c. 1911), 1 O/S model.

Acc 2749: Audio recordings of Wellcome Symposia on the History of Medicine and some miscellaneous talks held at the Wellcome Institute (1970s-1990s), 62 audio cassette tapes.

Acc 2759: Photographic material relating to animal health ('A' series) formerly managed by the Wellcome Images department, which was wound down in 2017. Comprises 1,308 35mm photographic slides, 1,308 digitised surrogates and 216 born-digital images, plus legacy cataloguing metadata and acquisition forms (1990s-2000s).

Acc 2762: Wellcome Institute annual reports, collection guides and catalogues, exhibition catalogues, and leaflets (1970s-1990s); Wellcome Centre newsletters (1990s); Wellcome Trust publications, offprints and leaflets (1970s-1990s); and black and white photographs of various bookstacks in the Wellcome Building basement c. late 1970s. 6 files [N.b. This accession and extent includes WF and WA/HMM material also].

Acc 2769: Wellcome Institute Iconographic Collections Videodisc (c.1993), 12-inch laserdisc.

Acc 2770: Printed and published materials created or supported by Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Institute and the Wellcome Trust. Includes annual reports, exhibition guides, and public programming ephemera (1970s-2024), 1 box and 1 O/S volume.

Acc 2773: Wellcome Trust organisational records, comprising : correspondence and papers of Bridget Ogilvie (1993-1998); Wellcome-organised conference and meeting packs (1998-1999); Chair and Director's Office correspondence and papers relating to senior staff (1985-2003); files relating to visits made by Wellcome trustees and scientific staff, namely to universities and health and scientific research and funding organisations (1977-1989); grant and funded activities files (1974-2001); and Wellcome-branded printed and published materials (2015-2016), 11 boxes.

Further additions to the collection are anticipated.

Ownership note

The majority of the boxes were transferred to Wellcome Collection in 2016 (Acc 2320). Some additional grey literature, acquired through office deposits over preceeding years, was reincorporated retrospectively into the archive at the same time. Since 2018 additional material has been transferred directly to the archive via staff and departments within Wellcome and a small amount of material has been acquired from external sources. The custodial history of this material has been recorded within the catalogue, usually at series-level.

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Identifiers

Accession number

  • 2137
  • 2320
  • 2348
  • 2376
  • 2396
  • 2397
  • 2406
  • 2420
  • 2432
  • 2435
  • 2438
  • 2442
  • 2443
  • 2444
  • 2445
  • 2446
  • 2449
  • 2464
  • 2468
  • 2470
  • 2472
  • 2473
  • 2475
  • 2476
  • 2479
  • 2486
  • 2487
  • 2491
  • 2492
  • 2496
  • 2497
  • 2499
  • 2517
  • 2518
  • 2519
  • 2535
  • 2553
  • 2557
  • 2567
  • 2571
  • 2572
  • 2219
  • 2581
  • 2584
  • 2589
  • 2595
  • 2596
  • 2598
  • 2601
  • 2602
  • 2603
  • 2604
  • 2606
  • 2607
  • 2610
  • 2616
  • 2618
  • 2619
  • 2621
  • 2624
  • 2625
  • 2628
  • 2635
  • 2640
  • 2643
  • 2645
  • 2650
  • 2655
  • 2662
  • 2663
  • 2671
  • 2672
  • 2675
  • 2682
  • 2687
  • 2690
  • 2704
  • 2707
  • 2708
  • 2710
  • 2711
  • 2717
  • 2722
  • 2732
  • 2737
  • 2739
  • 2743
  • 2749
  • 2762
  • 2769
  • 2770
  • 2773