The long read: The abortion debate – the language of life, choice and rights – severs women, and their pain, from history. I don’t want to forget my abortion and I don’t want to forget theirs

historian at durham / writer and critic, mostly for the lrb and nyrb. i'm writing a history of the female body, out in june! https://linktr.ee/erinmaglaque https://erinmaglaque.com

Arya Ray discusses new directions emerging from the one-day international workshop ‘The Senses and Medical Humanities,’ held at Durham University in February 2026.

Despite having been the most common and deadly cancer of the twentieth century (first in the western world and later worldwide), lung cancer never attracte

Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such p...

The use of ‘open-air’ as a therapeutic agent in sanatoria, hospitals, and schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries led to the development of specific material features associated w...

In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s e...

Lord, Evelyn. The Great Plague: When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665. : Yale University Press, 2023. 208 pp. $22.00 (paper), ISBN 9780300270259. Reviewed by Claire Turner (Durham University) Published...

Lord, Evelyn. The Great Plague: When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665. : Yale University Press, 2023. 208 pp. $22.00 (paper), ISBN 9780300270259. Reviewed by Claire Turner (Durham University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (May, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=62763

In Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service (Oxford University Press, 2026), Harry C. Merritt explores the wartime experiences and postwar legacies of the...

The first of the ‘Lab Coat Lunches’ series, hosted by the Visual and Material Lab, features Matt Durran discussing his collaboration with the Royal Free Hospital in London, bringing together modern…