Wednesday Oct 3rd, 2012
On taste and morality: from William Hogarth to Grayson Perry
The artist Grayson Perry recently completed a cycle of six giant tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences, inspired by William Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress. In the Turner Prizewinner’s modern rendition, Tim Rakewell (like his Georgian counterpart Tom Rakewell) undergoes a social transformation from humble origins to landed gentry. In Perry’s version, Tim’s life course is transformed by university education and a self-made fortune… read more »
Wednesday Jun 19th, 2013
Forcible feeding and the Cat and Mouse Act: one hundred years on
Ian Miller on medical ethics and the forcible feeding debate
Tuesday Jun 18th, 2013
Prepare for the worst
Seventeenth-century home remedies for dangerous ailments
Saturday Jun 8th, 2013
The origin and text of The Book of Common Prayer
Video interviews with Brian Cummings
Tuesday
Jun 4th, 2013
Why is Emily Wilding Davison remembered as the first suffragette martyr?
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