Collections – Phenomenal Bodies

Here you will find details of all key objects related to each display. This page will be updated between 2025 and 2027 as more displays are scheduled.

An image displaying a grid of four black-and-white military photograph portraits, capturing men in uniform, motorcycles, and military figures relaxing in the countryside.

The item we’ve chosen to highlight from the Phenomenal Bodies display in Heritage Collections (University of Edinburgh) is a photograph album dating back to the First World War. It’s held in Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA), the archive of NHS Lothian based… Read More

Photograph of men making prosthetic limbs

This photograph captures a workshop scene in one of the Clyde Yards, where engineers and workers were making and assembling prosthetic limbs for people who had had their limbs amputated during the war. The photograph shows the production site as a… Read More