By Julian Barker FLS FNIMH Part OneIn her book Medicine & Culture (Figure 1) Lynn Payer studied styles of mainstream medicine in four countries which you might have assumed had more or less sta…

By Anne Stobart PhD, independent researcher and author When I was young the concept of truth seemed so simple. Learning about history helped me to appreciate the many versions of reality that are p…

By Dr Barbara Böck, Research Professor, CSIC, Madrid Figure 1 Supernatural figure kneeling before a stylized “sacred tree”. Gypsum Alabaster relief from the Northwest Palast at Nimrud, 883-859 BCE.…

Explorations of a 17th century commonplace book by Suzi Richer, PhD, medical herbalist and environmental archaeologist.

An exploration of the introduction of rhubarb into European medicine by Lai Yan Wong, PhD student in the Department of English at King’s College London.

By Mika Hyman, University of Cambridge & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In the mid 1700s, the physician William Heberden (1710-1801) donated a cabinet to his old Cambridge college, St. John’s. The…

Lucy Reed is a PhD candidate at the University of Reading.This blog explores her research on the effects of written and oral traditions on the British medicinal flora.

Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.

General enquiries & Press herbalhistoryrn@gmail.com Mailing lists We have 2 mailing lists, a researchers network (HIST-HERB-MED) and a more general one for forthcoming news of seminars and even…

By Caroline Rance, Researcher at The Quack Doctor Figure 1 A promotional leaflet for Barrett’s Mandrake Embrocation, c. 1889-90. Author’s photo from original in Wellcome Library, Drug a…

A Herbal History Research Network Online Seminar