In the latest issue of the RCP's membership magazine, Commentary, RCP president Professor Andrew Goddard interviews Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

RCP rare books and special collections librarian Katie Birkwood explores the dance of death, an artistic genre that offers fascinating insight into mortality during the Late Middle Ages.

Letters in the RCP archives written by the pioneering feminist and physician Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) demonstrate her determination to achieve success in the then almost exclusively male field of medicine.

17th-century firework-making instructions from the RCP library, including how to make St George and a dragon ‘run furiously’ at each other.

Within the 20th-century modernism of the RCP's Grade I listed headquarters sits a 17th-century oak-panelled interior known as the Censors Room.