Stories
- Article
Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
- Article
Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Books
England under the Tudors / by G.R.Elton.
Elton, G. R. (Geoffrey Rudolph)Date: [1962]- Books
England, 1870-1914 / by R.C.K. Ensor.
Ensor, R. C. K. (Robert Charles Kirkwood), 1877-1958.Date: 1936- Books
England eats out : a social history of eating out in England from 1830 to the present / John Burnett.
Burnett, John, 1925-2006.Date: 2004- Books
- Online
England's black tribunal, or, King Charles's martyrdom.
Date: [1760?]- Books
England, 1200-1640 / by G.R. Elton.
Elton, G. R. (Geoffrey Rudolph)Date: 1969
