Tuesday, 22 December 2015

History as She is Learned: Some of my Students' Greatest Hits

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"Visits to Bedlam Lunatic Hospital by prominent socialites and political figures (such as the Prince of Whales) increased the populari...
Thursday, 3 December 2015

Art of the First World War: The Nash Brothers

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The brothers John and Paul Nash were two of the major British artist-soldiers of World War I, renowned for their surrealistic yet realistic ...
Friday, 27 November 2015

Art of the First World War: Otto Dix

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Otto Dix (1891-1969) was one of the great artists of the early 20th century, renowned for his harsh modernist, yet realistic depictions of t...
Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Art of the First World War

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The First World War, which ended a century ago, killed at least 10 million soldiers and millions more civilians, led to the Russian Revoluti...
Wednesday, 28 October 2015

London's Dirty Dissector: Joshua Brookes

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Joshua Brookes (1761-1833) was an unusual British anatomist. Another anatomist called him "the dirtiest professional person I have ever...
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Friday, 11 September 2015

Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness

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The incredible story of the treatment of the mentally ill in a Deep South state, which produced one of the first state mental hospital...
Monday, 24 August 2015

The First Vaccine Eliminated History's Greatest Killer, Smallpox

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Perhaps the greatest weapon human beings possess against infectious disease is vaccines. They are also one of the most cost-effective, becau...