Florence Nightingale and her Crimean War Statistics: Lessons for hospital safety, public administration and nursing Professor McDonald will discusses the history and the myth surrounding...
"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...
Quakers Living Adventurously: The Library and Archives of the Society of Friends Since the seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of...
The Communist Party of Great Britain and Middle Class Recruits Professor Morgan, of the University of Manchester, examines the wider...
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...
The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...
The Hidden Face of British Gardening Gardening has been big business since the 17th century, but how can we measure its growth and economic importance?