Monday, 14 November 2016

"We Have Conquered Infectious Disease!" Not.

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“We have conquered infectious disease!” This may sound like Donald Trump, but it wasn't. It was a Surgeon-General of the United St...
Tuesday, 18 October 2016

A VERY Short History of Medicine

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Fathers of Medicine and Allied Arts Hippocrates & Co.  Therapeutics “Doctor, I have an earache.” 2000 BC – “Here...
Wednesday, 28 September 2016

The New Moral World: Robert Owen's New Lanark

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New Lanark , Scotland, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site about 25 miles from Glasgow on the Falls of Clyde. David Dale founded New Lanark a...
Thursday, 8 September 2016

Tom Paine: The Patriot America Rejected

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The triumph of Trump and his MAGA movement of faux patriots tells me it is time to look once again at the career of someone who was a tr...
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Wednesday, 27 July 2016

The Tower of London's Only American Prisoner: Henry Laurens

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The Tower of London , originally a royal castle-palace, later a royal prison, has housed many famous prisoners in its thousand year h...
Friday, 1 July 2016

The Battle of the Somme: Dress Rehearsal for Brexit

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The Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest battle of World War I, produced 300,000 dead and one million casualties, with virtually no change...
Monday, 20 June 2016

Wilkes and Liberty!

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John Wilkes (1725-1797) is an enigmatic figure. At various times radical defender of liberty, rake, xenophobe, and conservative politician, ...
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