Medicine & Disease

Krista Kesselring describes how coroners in the Early Modern period tried to establish the cause of death in disputed cases.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 12th, 1905.

Richard Cavendish marks the funeral of one of medicine's most eminent pioneers, on March 18th, 1955.

Yehuda Koren tells one family’s remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz.

Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent.

Liane Aukin looks at the private life of Florence Nightingale, and at how her strained relationship with her mother shaped her destiny.

Gilbert Shama looks at the German research into penicillin during the Second World War.

Andrew Mendelsohn outlines the attractions of a fast-growing an popular field of study.

Jonathan Hughes looks at the significance, in alchemical terms, of this reign, and what the King himself made of alchemical prophecy.