of Altrincham Workhouse and the Sick Poor English Butcher, ca.1875 On 15 June 1887, James G. Hutchinson, the Coroner for Bradford in West Yorkshire, recorded
Breughel’s depiction of a much earlier ‘Dancing Plague’ in Strasbourg, 1518 William Falconer (1744-1824), physician at Bath General Hospital, recalled seeing what he described as
On November the 1st, 1888, an intriguing headline on page 11 of The Shrewsbury Chronicle read: LIKE THE VISIT OF A SECOND CHRIST It was
CONTENT WARNING: the following contains descriptions of historic abortion that some readers may find upsetting It is now two years since the United States Supreme
On 20 November 1902 a child was born at Wreyland, in Devon, suffering from a rupture (the term has several meanings but likely a hernia
Undated illustration from the Yale University Library Collection This is the second part of our guest blog from Julie Moore on the life and