Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt is an innovative, ‘people-focused’ study which approaches ancient Egyptian practices from the perspective of the healthcare professionals and their patients. It describes perceptions of illness and disability; the training, roles and interaction of healthcare providers; the healing methods experienced by various social groups; and ancient Egypt’s legacy to … Continue reading
A History of Disability in England
A History of Disability in England by Simon Jarrett has recently published as part of our Historic England imprint. This thousand-year history of people with disabilities in English society ranges from the surprisingly integrated societies of the medieval and early modern periods to the institutionalisation of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book holds important … Continue reading
The Art School in the Attic
An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds by Rebecca Wade reveals the origins of Leeds’ permanent cultural institutions and the influential networks that shaped the city’s relationship with fine and decorative arts, industry and the sciences. To mark the publication of this new book, the author explores a small but significant space that held the first … Continue reading
The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands: Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch made History
The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands: Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch made History by George Demidowicz, published by Historic England and Liverpool University Press in February 2022, provides a comprehensive analysis of the ground-breaking historic industrial complex, created to the west of Birmingham in the eighteenth century and associated with Matthew Boulton, James … Continue reading
The Architecture of Steam
The Architecture of Steam: Waterworks and the Victorian Sanitary Crisis by James Douet weaves for the first time architectural and social history with industrial and engineering progress to show how waterworks pulled nineteenth-century towns back from the Sanitary Crisis that menaced civilized urban life. To celebrate this new Historic England publication, the author has put together … Continue reading
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