Growing your PhD Research
In the first year of your PhD, thoughts often feel scattered. Your PhD floats around unanchored and sometimes it feels like…
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The Victorian Botanical Clock
The botanical clock, or ‘Watch of Flora’, was a garden plan hypothesised by the eighteenth-century naturalist Carl Linnaeus. This ‘pretty fancy…
Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies and The Origins Debate.
Linley Sambourne’s cartoon ‘Man is but a Worm’, appearing in Punch in 1882 in depicts the evolution of man; from…
The Strange Story of Anna Kingsford
[ illustrations ‘Cold Wind’ & ‘Fake it till you make it’ by Rovina Cai] As the only Victorian medical student at…
Digitised Curiosities: Unlocking the Senses of the Past
As an addendum to my previous post that celebrated the ‘haptics’ of examining physical materials, I thought I would…
Weekly Roundup of Curiosities #2
The Constructing Scientific Communities (@Conscicom) project and the Hunterian Museum have co-curated an exhibition on the history of vaccination, which…
Georgiana Houghton, the Victorian Artist who Channeled the Spirits of the Dead
Georgiana Houghton was a spiritualist medium who was trained in classical art but gave up painting after the death…
Liberating the Library: The Hidden Gems On Your University Shelves
Browsing through the bookshelves of your modern university library – have you ever had a look at one of the conspicuously…
Mesmerism, Madness and Witchcraft in Jane Eyre
After first meeting Jane, Rochester furthers their relationship by masquerading as a gypsy to discover her true impressions of him. His voice ‘wraps’ her…
Weekly Roundup of Curiosities
#1 Curator Andrea Hart provides an audio slideshow of Rare Treasures. Which brings together some of the Museum’s most highly…