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Learning To Fight Smallpox: Edward Jenner’s Inquiry
By Emily Chircop For most of human history, smallpox was a truly devastating disease, spreading rapidly through communities and especially affecting vulnerable children. Up to…
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Understanding Human Anatomy: The Works of Vesalius and Harvey
By Emily Chircop How did physicians in the past learn about human anatomy? For over a thousand years, they primarily studied the work of the…
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Ibn Sina’s Canon: Medicine From The Medieval Islamic World
By Emily Chircop Until the 16th century, almost all Western medicine relied on key concepts from ancient Greece and Rome, such as the teachings of…
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S. S. Wesley: Life, Music and Legacy
By Emma Laws, Exeter Cathedral Librarian This month marks 150 years since the death of Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876), organist at Exeter Cathedral from 1835…
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A View From Honiton Hill, 1811
By Emma Laws, Exeter Cathedral Librarian A couple of weeks ago I came across a very rare 1811 printing of a poem entitled ‘Honiton-Hill’ by…
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Hereford Cathedral’s disaster at Easter 1786
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist In December 1786, the Dean & Chapter at Exeter authorised a gift of £50 (roughly equivalent to about £4000) to…
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Exeter Cathedral Launches New Competition to Find the South West’s Young Historian of the Year
Exeter Cathedral is launching the Young Historian of the Year – a new competition to find talented history enthusiasts in the South West of England.…
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Spas
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist The use of spas – with their natural, often hot, mineral-rich waters – for leisure, medicinal and therapeutic purposes have…
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John Ward: Shipwright, Shoemaker and Shiloh
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was a self-professed prophet, born in Taleford and baptised in Ottery St Mary. She grew up in…
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Much Visited By The Curious
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian This year’s theme for British Science Week – Curiosity: What’s Your Question? – encourages us all to be curious about…