The woman who gave birth to rabbits
Mary Toft was a woman who claimed to have given birth to rabbits so how did she fool so many people in 18th century England?
Mary Toft was a woman who claimed to have given birth to rabbits so how did she fool so many people in 18th century England?
In the early 19th century a criminal was brought back to life using Galvanic methods – the use of electricity that inspired the novel, Frankenstein
Xenophobia in London is nothing new as Londoners hated the French two hundred years ago as Tony McMahon discovers
The Black Boy Alley gang terrorised Georgian London but were eventually executed en masse at Tyburn
A day trip to Georgian London could have involved going to see a prisoner put to death or watching a live amputation by a well known surgeon