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.

Behind the scenes filming a video to accompany the 2018 exhibition ‘Ceaseless motion’, which will reveal the life and work of William Harvey, RCP fellow who discovered the circulation of the blood.

Physician Samuel Garth's satirical poem about an argument between the RCP and the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries was an unlikely 18th-century best-seller.

In August 2017, librarianship student Catherine Chorley undertook a 2-week placement at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) library, surveying some of our rare books previously owned by Henry Pierrepont, Marquis of Dorchester, for important marks of earlier ownership and use.

The experiences of prisoners of war in the far east during the Second World War have been studied for decades at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, informing modern understanding of mental and physical illness.

Live sounds of a human heart were broadcast in the UK one evening in February 1925, giving physicians and the general public a newly intimate – and possibly unsettling – insight into the inner workings of the human body.

What can physicians’ records really tell us about the experiences of people with epilepsy through time? Examples from John Hughlings Jackson, Jonathan Binns, Robert Reid and Theodore Preston present various possibilities.

Physician John Morgan was instrumental in founding the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1765, the first medical school in the then American colonies. This achievement wasn’t without its struggles, particularly conflict with William Shippen.