Piccadilly, c. 1900

Piccadilly, c. 1900

Holborn Circus, 1910

Holborn Circus, 1910

Brewers Quay, 1930's

Brewers Quay; 1930's

Pageantmaster Court, circa 1930

Pageantmaster Court, Ludgate Hill, c. 1930

Harley Street, circa 1890

Harley Street, circa 1890.
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Cheapside, 1890

Cheapside, 1890

Picadilly Circus, 1948

Picadilly Circus, 23rd July, 1948

Regent Street, circa 1890

Regent Street, circa 1890
(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Covent Garden, circa 1890

Covent Garden. c. 1890
(Photo by London Stereoscopic Company / Getty Images)

The Institute of Sexology

In this photograph, taken in the late 1920s, we can see a nurse next to the Marie Stopes birth control clinic. Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist, academic, eugenicist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of birth control. 

This picture, property of the Wellcome Library, is part of the exhibition The Institute of Sexology. This unique exposition will be at the Wellcome Collection until the 20th of September, 2015.

'The Institute of Sexology' brings together the pioneers of the study of sex through films, photographs, sculptures, archives and sexual instruments.

Besides this picture of Marie Stopes, the show collects some works and objects from Magnus Hirschfeld, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, Virginia Johnson or Richard von Krafft-Ebing, among others.

Undress your mind and explore how sex was observed and analysed, since the 19th century, from different points of view as perversion, sadomasochism or homosexuality.

Cheapside, c.1890

The statue of Robert Peel. Cheapside. c.1890.
 (Photo by William England / London Stereoscopic Company / Getty Images)

Mile End Road, c. 1920

Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Road, c. 1920

London Bridge, 1890

 London Bridge, 1890
(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Liverpool Street Station, circa 1890

 Liverpool Street Station, circa 1890

Cambridge Circus, 1890

Palace Theatre at Cambridge Circus, 1890
(Photo by London Stereoscopic Company / Getty Images)

Cheapside, 1890

Cheapside, 1890

The Bank of England, c. 1890

 The Bank of England in Threadneedle Street, London.
 (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company)

Bangor St, Kensington, c. 1900

Bangor St, Kensington, c. 1900

The River Thames, 1937

Working boats on The River Thames, 1937

Piccadilly Circus, c. 1900

Piccadilly Circus, c. 1900