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A selection of illustrations of medical procedures, including childbirth and someone vomiting, around a circular chart that depicts flasks of different coloured urine

Marvellous medieval medicine: why their curious cures were better than you think.

Crystal balls & contacting angels: predicting the future in early modern England.

The REAL history behind 'All Creatures Great and Small'.

This 1605 print depicts Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, a failed Catholic scheme to blow up the Houses of Parliament during the state opening by King James I.

420 years ago, a deadly conspiracy to kill Britain’s king nearly succeeded. What if it had worked?

Giuseppe Garibaldi: life of the week.

A man in medieval attire hands another man an arrow

Was there a real Sheriff of Nottingham?

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