‘The Sick Rose’
As readers of this blog will surely know, the Wellcome Library and Wellcome Images hold one of the world’s great archives of historical medical and scientific images. Over the next … Continue reading
Sick City Talks 9 – ‘Pocket Horizon’
Pocket Horizon is an anthology of new poems inspired by objects in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge and Wellcome Collection in London. Our first workshop took place at the Whipple Museum … Continue reading
Morbid Anatomy Library scholar in residence
I’m delighted to say that Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy has invited me to be scholar in residence at the Morbid Anatomy Library in Brooklyn for April 2014. Having been … Continue reading
‘This Parliament of Monsters’: London’s spectacular fairs
This is the text of a talk I gave on 7 September at ‘Reclaiming Spectacle’ – the two-day finale of the 2013 Congress for Curious People. There’s a short bibliography … Continue reading
The History Social – 5 Sept 2013
The Ministry of Curiosity and the Sick City Project invite you to the next History Social – a regular chance to meet, make new friends and contacts, and talk about … Continue reading
The Sick City Project at the City Lit
In the spring of 2014 I’ll be teaching two courses on the history of science & medicine at the City Lit – London’s leading college of adult education. Both are … Continue reading
The History Social – 27 June 2013
Are you a student of London’s history? An academic? A professional working in museums or engagement? A walking guide, a writer, an artist? Or just plain passionate about London? Wherever … Continue reading
Anatomy of the City 10 – Casanova in Soho
Despite appearances, sex in Soho has not always been a matter of mere commerce, and its streets have played host to some of the most notorious lovers in history. In … Continue reading
Sick City Talks 8 – Matthew Reynolds
There needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us that the world, and the place of medicine within it, is being revolutionised by new and powerful kinds of … Continue reading
‘Pocket Horizon’ – poems inspired by science, medicine and history
Over the last month I’ve been working with the poet Kelley Swain and her group – the Nevada Street Poets – on a new project which mixes poetry with science, … Continue reading
