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dralun.wordpress.com

2015

‘Rhythmical Essays on the Beard Question’: Beard haters in the 1860s!original ↗
8 Jan 2015

2014

The New Jersey Beard Tax and Other Strange Beard Facts!original ↗
3 Dec 2014
Beards, Whiskers and the History of Pogonotomy – BBC Free Thinking Transcriptoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2014
Good and Bad Deaths in the Seventeenth Centuryoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2014
7 ‘Curious Particulars’: Useful knowledge in the 18th Century.original ↗
24 Oct 2014
10 Seventeenth-century remedies you’d probably want to avoid!original ↗
17 Oct 2014
500 Years of the Model Man!original ↗
14 Oct 2014
Overcrowded and Underfunded: 18th-Century Hospitals and the NHS Crisisoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2014
More Popular than Ever? Beards and Masculinity in History.original ↗
22 Sept 2014
The Great Georgian Snuff Debateoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2014
‘He is gone from his service before his time’: Medical Apprenticeships in Early Modern Britainoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2014
‘Worems in the teeth’: Toothache, dentistry and remedies in the early modern period.original ↗
19 Jun 2014
The Hand of History: Hands, fingers and nails in the eighteenth centuryoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2014
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Hunting for 17th-century medics with few sources!original ↗
14 May 2014
The Case of the Severed Finger: Callow vs Heane, 1634original ↗
8 May 2014
The Medical Case for Beards in the 19th Centuryoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2014
“Master Docturdo and Fartado”: Libellous Doctors in Early Modern Britainoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2014
Shaving in the Trenches: Washing and grooming in the Great War.original ↗
21 Mar 2014
The 1381 Peasants’ Revolt…in 5 tweets!original ↗
14 Mar 2014
“By the King’s Special Grant”: A Venetian Quack in Early Modern Britainoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2014
Mad Dog (bites) and Englishmen: Early-modern remedies for Hydrophobiaoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2014
Negotiating a pay rise – 18th-century style!original ↗
24 Jan 2014
Do you need a doctor? Applying for medical jobs in the eighteenth centuryoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2014
Sit up Straight! Bad posture and the ‘Neck Swing’ in the 18th century.original ↗
15 Jan 2014
The Medical Case for Beards in the 19th Centuryoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2014
Detoxing in History: the morning after the night before!original ↗
4 Jan 2014

2013

17th-century remedies and the body as an experimentoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2013
Movember 2013 Special: Beardless boys and false moustachesoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2013
2013 EAHMH Book Award for Physick and the Familyoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2013
Reading between the lines: reconstructing lives from parish registersoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2013
Bloodletting in Medicine: The return of the Leechoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2013
Beards, Moustaches and Facial Hair in Historyoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2013
Pig boys and boar bites: a seventeenth-century medical consultationoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2013
Polite Sickness: Illness narratives in 18th-century lettersoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2013
Name and Shame: performance and reputation in early modern medicineoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2013
Finding medical practitioners in early-modern Britain.original ↗
29 May 2013
How Welsh medicine helped to create America!original ↗
6 May 2013
“The infamous Dr Foulkes”: The ‘black villain’ of 18th-century physickoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2013
“Medicine in Medieval Wales” Dr Alun at the Hay Festival, May 31st 2013original ↗
1 Apr 2013
Eighteenth-Century fashionable diseases, and the dangers of crowded rooms.original ↗
18 Mar 2013
The English Priest’s Powder: A 17th-century quack doctor’s advertisementoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2013
Beards, razors, and the history of shaving – BBC Radio interview from 2011original ↗
1 Mar 2013
A Welsh doctor, Sir Hans Sloane, and the disappearing catheter!original ↗
28 Feb 2013
Appreciating the doctor in early modern Britain!original ↗
13 Feb 2013
‘Politeness and Pogonotomy: shaving and masculinity in Georgian Britain’ | Wellcome Libraryoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2013
‘Weird’ remedies and the problem of ‘folklore’original ↗
24 Jan 2013
Norovirus and the reporting of epidemics through historyoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2013

2012

2012 in revieworiginal ↗
31 Dec 2012
Shopping and advertising in Georgian Britainoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2012
“MOVEMBER” Special: J.H. Savigny and innovation in eighteenth-century shavingoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2012
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