Hospitalised children predate 19th-century specialist children’s hospitals. Before Lister and anaesthesia, surgery was generally of short duration. In the 18th century, paediatric surgery was ...

A vital pathway for breathing and nourishment is also an object of desire—and one of the body’s most vulnerable parts.

A four-bedroom period cottage thought to date back to the 18th century is for sale in Coltishall at a guide price of £750,000.

A roundup of events, announcements and community news from Meriden, Wallingford, Cheshire, Southington and the surrounding ...

There is a chance that an asteroid will hit Earth in 2032, and scientists are recording observations of the asteroid from ...

Gilda Radner's life was cut too short when she succumbed to cancer in 1989 aged 42. But many tragedies marred her life before ...

From an adoptee who learned the truth about her family to a couple whose house was haunted by two noisy ghosts and a mum ...

From a luxury product for the very rich, glass gradually became more widely produced and affordable. It is for this reason that a volume of 18th century material has survived. For today’s collector, ...

Simone and Malcolm Collins are enthusiastic avatars for a new pronatalist movement. With Trump 2.0, the “new right” couple ...

Undercurrents of strange populate offbeat comedies. Instead of relying on age-old tropes to deliver punchlines, offbeat ...

The reconciling of practical science, thought, and religion ensured Canon was studied by European medics until the 18th century ... The greatest advances in surgery of the era were detailed ...