Wellcome Collection has recently launched the first in a series of 'digital stories' exploring their collections. It's called 'Mindcraft' and tells a six-part history of mesmerism and mind control in the nineteenth century history:
http://digitalstories.wellcomecollection.org/
Wellcome wanted to find new ways of telling stories online, using their digitised collections as sources, rather than creating something that explained an existing digitised collection.
They are designed to expose people to original and new digitised content (some of which was digitised specially for this project) without dropping them into researcher-oriented catalogues, so Wellcome Library's player has been embedded into the experience - you can access the digitised resources (and download hi-res Creative Commons images, natch) from within the story.
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