Leicester Square’s Hidden Scientific History
“…curious monkies and monsters, which might disgust the Ladies.”
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Theatre Preview: The Irish Giant @ Southwark Playhouse
The story of Charles Byrne and John Hunter finally comes to the stage.
The London Of John Hunter…Mapped
View The London of John Hunter in a larger map As anyone who’s been following our Museum of the Month thread will by now be aware, John Hunter was something of a superstar in London. Hunter was among Europe’s foremost surgeons of the 18th century, …
From The Hunterian: The Cockerel’s Tooth
In the first of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Hunterian Museum. Yes, it’s a cockerel’s head with a human tooth sticking out of the top. Surgeon John Hunter made …
Museum Of The Month: The Hunterian Museum
London has many museums of health and medicine. Over 20, in fact. None come close in scale, prestige and sheer oddness to the Hunterian Museum, housed in the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The museum contains a collection of anatomical specimens assembled …
