Stories
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Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
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Injuries and diseases of the jaws : the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867 / by Christopher Heath.
Date: 1868- Videos
Blood and guts: a history of surgery. Part 4, Fixing faces.
Date: 2008- Archives and manuscripts
Bell, John Pearson: Commonplace Book
Bell, John Pearson, MD, JP (1808-1886)Date: c.1826-1884Reference: MS.8787- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY
Date: 1765-1910Reference: MS.8854