London has seen an outbreak of measles in schools impacting children who have not been fully immunised. This is astonishing given that the measles vaccination has been with us since 1963, consigning to history the epidemics that used to sweept the city every other year, resulting in over half a million cases. Small children were…
A lesson from history for anti-vaxxers that when people stopped vaccinating in 19th century Ceylon – smallpox returned even worse than before as Tony McMahon reports
The Black Boy Alley gang terrorised Georgian London but were eventually executed en masse at Tyburn
Powerful women in history have been subject to lies and myths like Lucrezia Borgia accused of being a serial poisoner with no evidence
In medieval England two children with green skin entered the village of Wulpet causing a commotion – nobody knew exactly what they were