Gallery

  • Sarcoma of the Upper Face Bone. Andrew Charles, Cancer, A Handbook for the Lay Reader (Dublin: Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer Ireland, 1922).
  • The Blackstaff Menace. A.G. Malcolm, The Sanitary State of Belfast with Suggestions for its Improvements (Belfast: Henry Greer, 1852), p. 43.
  • View of Castle Place towards Hercules Place © National Museums NI.
  • Toe Rot: Diseased Tissue on the Toe and Nail of a Woman Showing Symptoms of Onychia. Watercolour by C. D’Alton c.1870. Wellcome Collection.
  • Amputation Case, Mid-19th Century. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
  • Lichen Leg affected with Lichen Ruber. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Archives & Museum. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
  • A Fifty-Year-Old Irish Labourer who was Admitted to Mercer’s Hospital for the Removal of a Large Tumour from the Back of the Neck. E. Stamer O’Grady, Notes of Surgical Cases (Dublin: John Falconer, 1875).
  • Sixty-Year-Old Widow who was Admitted to Mercers Hospital for a Large Tumour Located on her Face and Neck. E. Stamer O’Grady, Notes of Surgical Cases (Dublin: John Falconer, 1875).
  • High Street, Belfast c.1831. Ulster Museum, IC/High St/831.
  • Map of Belfast’s Cholera Localities, 1832. Ulster Museum, IC/High St/831.
  • Cholera Poster, Belfast, 1832. Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, BMS/19.
  • Vaccination Certificate (1907). © Rebecca Watterson
  • Register of Cases of Successful Vaccination (1864).
  • Postcard distributed by the Irish Anti-Vaccination League, c.1909.
  • Kernig’s Sign. William Osler, ‘The Cavendish Lecture on the Etiology and Diagnosis of Cerebro-Spinal Fever’, British Medical Journal, i:2008 (24 June 2009), p. 1521.
  • Birth and Death Rates per 1000, Belfast, 1880-1909. Report of the Medical Officer of Health, Belfast County Borough. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
  • Principal Causes of Death during the Year 1909, Medical Officer of Health Report, Belfast County Borough., 1909. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
  • Rona Fields, A Society on the Run: A Psychology of Northern Ireland (London: Penguin, 1973).
  • Northern Ireland Women’s Rights Movement newsletter, (1980). Linen Hall Library, NIPC P13672.
  • Prof. Louise Dubras before Starting her First Shift at the COVID Centre (taken 30 March 2020). © Prof. Louise Dubras.
  • ‘We Go Were We Are Needed’.
  • Coronavirus (2021). https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/6c521947-42dd-421d-8eee-2d67f8fb1370.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming Giving a Lecture to QUB Students. © National Museums NI.
  • Forster Green and Co Ltd, Tea Merchants, Royal Avenue, (1920). © National Museums NI.
  • Gummed label for Todd’s Indigestion and Liver Mixture, prepared by Horatio Todd, Belfast. © National Museums NI.
  • Lorry and 4 Bread Vans at Bernard Hughes’ Bakery. © National Museums NI.
  • Provisional IRA Board Made by Women in Armagh Gaol (1974). © National Museums NI.
  • Time To Talk: Advertisement for the Sexual Health and AIDS Team of the Eastern Health and Social Services Board (1990-99]
  • Working Class Dwellings of Belfast, W. H. Stephens & Sons, Chartered Quantity Surveyors, Belfast.
  • Long Kesh/Maze Prison.
  • Séanna Walsh speaking at a Sinn Féin commemoration for IRA Volunteer Charlie McGlade in Drimnagh, Dublin, September 2010
  • Pair of Long Kesh/HMP Maze H-Block Prison Comms Written on Cigarette Papers in both English and Irish Referring to Hunger Strikers and H-Blocks. © National Museums NI.
  • Anti-Spitting Sign, Ireland, 1900-20.
  • AIDS Affects Irish People. Advertisement by the Southern Health Board. Colour lithograph by Kieran O’Connor, November 1992.
  • Greg Owen. AIDS Activist from Northern Ireland.
  • Jim Bailey and his mother, 1957.
  • Eddie McCory. c.1960s.
  • Wellcome Polio vaccine dropped on to sugar lump for child patient
  • Dissections of diseased lungs affected by pneumonia and tuberculosis: two figures. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Distaval (Thalidomide), The Distillers Company, c.1960. 
  • Pack of Thalidomide Tablets.
  • Jacqueline Fleming
  • Defibrillation Equipment.
  • British Red Cross Society Medal – ‘Proficiency in Red Cross Tuberculosis Course’. © National Museums NI.
  • Grieving neighbours of Mr Robin Shields, an ambulance controller shot dead at the Royal Victoria Hospital, 1980.
  • Kathleen Robb, matron of RVH 1966-1973 on her first day of work. She was awarded an OBE for her work during the early years of the Troubles.
  • Dr David Yellowlees
  • The Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries, Scotland. Transfer lithograph by Fr. Schenck, c.1840-43).
  • Framed Drawing of Glasgow Lunatic Asylum (built 1809) by David M. Walker.
  • Miss G. Gault and other Nurses on a Ward in the Union Infirmary (now Belfast City Hospital) c.1917.