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Joseph Merrick: A Skeleton in the University Cupboard

07 Dec 2019 / No Comments

Most of Joseph Merrick’s life sucked. In this he is not alone – life expectancy at his birth, in 1862, was around 40, and his brother died of scarlet fever […]

A Very Victorian Museum

30 Nov 2019 / No Comments

  “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”   […]