The Medical Sciences Video Archive, newly available online and hosted by Oxford Brookes University, opens up oral history video interviews with leading figures in 20th-century medicine.

In the 17th century, RCP fellow and Harveian librarian, Christopher Merret, discovered how to make sparkling wine.

Five objects from the RCP museum show the medical history that underpinned the BBC television series 'Quacks'.

To celebrate Explore Your Archive week, visitors came to see a hands-on display of archives relating to tuberculosis, emphysema, smoking and other lung health issues, chronicling people and practice over 400 years.

For national Explore Your Archive week, archivists from three medical royal colleges – the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists – reveal some of the treasures in their archives.

The 18th-century quack doctor James Graham recommended bathing in earth or soil as a cure for a wide range of complaints.

Professor Wallace Peters' donations to the RCP's collections illustrate his contributions to the fields of entomology and parasitology, particularly on malaria.

Post-mortem photos of RCP fellow William Jenner are an example of the 19th-century mourning practice of photographing recently deceased relatives.

The Kitchener School of Medicine, now part of the University of Khartoum, had links with the Royal College of Physicians from the time of its foundation in 1924.

The RCP archives have photographs taken by army medical officer Philip Graham Stock, who served in southern Africa during the Second Boer War.