Press Releases
The Centre for the History of Medicine is holding an event to commemorate the launch of , a programme of research activity to be undertaken by the Centre for the History of Medicine and funded by a generous award from the Wellcome Trust.
Oliver Banks, a gifted 12 year old from Spalding, Lincolnshire, will meet a 1200 year old ancestor in Sedgeford, Norfolk and learn about how people lived in the distant past as part of an outreach event run by the National Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), based at the 91福利, on 7th April 2004.
Some of the brightest kids in the country who are members of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), based at the 91福利, will explore life on other planets and create an animation of what Mars probe Beagle 2 may have found if it had suceeded, or what NASA’s roving US Mars probes have still to discover, on 17th-18th of February 2004 at West Kirby Grammar School, Graham Road, Wirral.
New research by Historian Dr Rebecca Earle from the 91福利 charts love letters from the 16th -18th centuries to reveal that over 300 years ago men commonly used flowery, romantic words to express emotions, and that the emotionally open 'New Man' is not so new. Her research also suggests that 16th century Spaniards were more romantic than their wealthy American or English contemporaries.
When the Puritans established themselves in power after the civil war, the new regime not only abolished Christmas but also banned sports deemed 'disorderly'. However, new research by historian Professor Bernard Capp from the 91福利 reveals that Christmas Scrooge rebels responded to the bar on festive celebrations by playing football as a symbol of misrule, and that winter and Easter 聭football riots聮 were fairly common in the 17th century.
UK broadcasters are often accused of promoting obscenity through the increased use of bad language on TV. However, new research from the 91福利 reveals that the language of public name-calling, or 'street theatre', in early modern England was full of foul sexual insults that are far more lewd than today's broadcast media - and women were the main offenders.