This posthumously published essay by the former Surgeon Vice Admiral of the Royal Navy considers how naval and civilian medical discoveries, attitudes and practices influenced each other during the ...

In response to the usual characterisation of dock labour as casual and exploited, this article suggests that throughout the nineteenth century a clearer distinction needs to be made between the ...

Griffith (not kidding). He was a 19th-century mining tycoon with a big curly mustache who donated the land to L.A. after using it to run a failed ostrich farm and who remained a local hero until ...

Irish native who switched from the music industry to the world of sport moving from Universal Music to AS in 2017. A keen runner, soccer player and now discovering the world's fastest growing ...

It is vital to remember how radically the landscape has changed. The Britain in 19th century could only force its vision upon India because it wielded overwhelming military and colonial power ...

They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder ...

Christie's New York will be offering a $30m -$50m painting by Claude Monet in their upcoming sales next month. Interestingly, Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule (1891) will be unveiled to the ...

Friel’s characters are mostly involved in a so-called Hedge School, in essence the equivalent of joint home-schooling in 19th century Ireland, where Gaelic is the dominant language. (Most people ...

“You’re looking sharp, little man!” said the photographer as I sat down. I remember smiling bright and wide and holding on to my mother. “My mama picked it out!” I said of the suit and ...

A feature article, written by Edwards, highlights the deaf community in 19th-century New York told through the life of a Black deaf man. An essay in this issue addresses the challenges of writing ...

It’s arguably the best-known photo by H.H. Bennett, the 19th century photographer and historian who helped put Wisconsin Dells on the map. After losing three fingers on his right hand in the ...

Schaeffer Collection, Promised Gift of Jennifer and Philip Maritz) For the 19th-Century US ... whether canvas or negative," he argued in an essay published in The Photographic News of 1848.