The Diary of a Dissection: Jane Jamieson and the Newcastle Barber Surgeons. By Patrick Low
The recent furore in France, over the wearing of Burkinis, has shone a new light on an age-old societal problem; the female body. Nowhere was the shock of a woman’s form greater than on the c18th and c19th anatomists’ slab. The prospect of total exposure to the eyes of an uncaring crowd and the […]
Turned off at Execution Dock: Thames Scenery in the City of the Gallows. By Richard Ward
Eighteenth-century London has, with good reason, been called “the city of the gallows”. Gibbets lined the approach to London in every direction, not least of which at various points along the Thames, where offenders sentenced to death by the High Court of Admiralty for crimes committed on the seas were hung in chains after […]
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