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The Darker Side of Victory: Wellington’s medical service at Waterloo

WEBThis Sunday evening had ended Napoleon Bonaparte’s last desperate attempt to defeat the Allied powers (Britain, Prussia, the German states, and the …

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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates

WEBThe Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox Penguin, £25, Hardback ISBN 978-0241277058. Reviewed by David Stuttard. Disease …

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Medicine and healing practices in ancient Egypt – The Past

WEBNovember 25, 2022. Medicine was practised from early times in Egypt and Mesopotamia, two great contemporary centres of civilisation. The first extant textual evidence of …

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Assessing the impact of industrialisation on our gut health

WEBIn the last couple of decades, a lot of medical research has focused on our gut, especially the role that our microbiome – the carefully balanced ecosystem of …

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Roman women: following the female line – The Past

WEBThe Julio-Claudian dynasty (1), of which Augustus was the first of five emperors, lasted from 27 BC to AD 68, and the only reason it endured was because it …

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Galen: The Emperor’s Doctor – The Past

WEBFebruary 18, 2021. When the coronavirus pandemic struck the United States, the White House called on Dr Anthony Fauci, one of the world’s leading experts on infectious …

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St Bartholomew the Great: tracing the history of London’s oldest

WEBThe claim to be London’s oldest surviving parish church rests on the fact that the rent-paying residents of the 53 tenements in St Bartholomew’s close had long …

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Hieroglyphs: the key to ancient Egypt – The Past

WEBIt is with good reason that this iconic object, dating from 196 BC, has come to be seen as a magical touchstone, for it held the key that opened the door to the …

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Greco-Roman Medicine and What It Can Teach Us Today

WEBReview by Laurence Totelin. Greco-Roman Medicine and What It Can Teach Us Today, Nick Summerton,,Pen & Sword, £25, ISBN 978-1526752871. This book …

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Reinterpreting a Tudor flagship: the Mary Rose and her crew

WEBAlmost 40 years have passed since the wreck of the ill-fated Tudor flagship, the Mary Rose, was raised from the Solent seaway (see CA 218 and 272).Today, her …

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Pandemics and public health: cleansing Bath’s ‘Great Unwashed’

WEBExcavations in Bath have revealed the remains of one of the earliest Victorian wash houses. Constructed during a time of revolutionary social reform and seismic shifts …

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Grave secrets: the children of the Reformation – The Past

WEBDrawing on his research of over 4,500 skeletons, Bennjamin Penny-Mason reveals an untold story. Start. Current Archaeology. April 30, 2015. It is 1485. The …

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Secrets of a secluded life: updating the story of the All Saints

WEBFebruary 25, 2023. More than a decade ago, we brought you the story of the ‘lost’ church of All Saints in York, where, between 2007 and 2008, On-Site Archaeology’s excavations …

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Archaeology on Prescription: Using fieldwork to support York’s …

WEBAn award-winning social prescribing project has been excavating thousands of years of history within the Walmgate area of York. Meg Barclay reports on its recent …

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Glass roots: examining the archaeology of glassmaking in England

WEBDavid Dungworth, Glassworking in England from the 14th to the 20th Century, Historic England, £70, ISBN 978-1848022850. Today, glass is a commodity so …

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‘Archaeology on Prescription’ health and wellbeing

WEBThe Past. September 29, 2021. York Archaeological Trust, which also trades under the name York Archaeology, has launched a new community project at the former Willow …

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Medicine and healing practices in Ancient Egypt – The Past

WEBREVIEW BY J PETER PHILLIPS. In contrast with previous works on this subject, which have focused exclusively on the remedies available to ancient Egyptian …

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Designed to enchant: the great dolmens of Neolithic northern …

WEBVicki Cummings and Colin Richards, Monuments in the Making: raising the great dolmens in early Neolithic northern Europe, Oxbow Books, £39.95, ISBN 978 …

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‘The end of the beginning’: Montgomery & El Alamein

WEBSeptember 12, 2022. To beleaguered Britons in the autumn of 1942, the hard-fought victory of the Eighth Army under its new commander General Bernard Montgomery at the …

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