Medical curiositiesin old cartes de visite

The piece I’d never part with

In August 1904, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and other New York newspapers could announce that a unique and novel attraction had come to town: Enigmarelle, the ‘Automaton Mystery’. This extraordinary cont

In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle

The Yellow Boy by Joshua Reynolds saw multiple peregrinations, passing even through (Romanian) royal hands for a time, before returning to London in 1981. It now headlines a selling exhibition of magnificent 18th to 20th-century works

Daddy Long-Legs, Brighton c.1896 T h ere are ...

I must extend my huge thanks to Jon Winder for his excellent article Swings and Roundabouts (July). I am currently scribbling notes which I hope to turn into a memoir of my childhood, and one chapter