Gauley Bridge was the scene of America’s biggest industrial disaster, in which hundreds of workers died from silicosis in the aftermath of the drilling in 1930–31 of a hydro-electric tunnel at Hawk’s Nest. This article scrutinises for the first …
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How prominent a role the workhouse played in the lives of older paupers in the nineteenth century is a matter of debate. This article addresses this issue, as well as the difficulty in determining who was classified as old and identifying them within …
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This article examines the experiences of mentally ill Nigerian migrants during the colonial era. Migrant Nigerian ‘lunatics’ faced different circumstances depending on what type of migrant they were and where they fell ill. Those in the UK…
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The use of the vaginal speculum was as important to Victorian doctors who struggled to professionalise the fields of gynaecology and obstetrics as it was controversial, especially when such doctors were men attending to women of respectable class stat…
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This study analyses the narrative elements of a little-known report into anti-venereal trials written by an Irish military physician-surgeon, Daniel O’Sullivan (1760–c.1797). It explores the way in which O’Sullivan as the narrator of the Histori…
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