Monthly Archives: October 2010
Mugging up again on the Hampton Court Conference
Mugging up again on the Hampton Court Conference of 1604 and the agreement made there that a new translation of the bible was required – which led to printing of The King James Bible. 2011 will be the anniversary of its publication in 1611 (yes, it took them all that time to do the actual
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Old Operating Theatre Museum at St Thomas’s Hospital
Just back from a visit to the Old Operating Theatre Museum at St Thomas’s Hospital in Southwark. There I was particularly glad to see a picture of Margaret White, the first recorded woman to survive an operation for a strangulated umbilical hernia, i.e. the condition that killed poor old (contemporary) Queen Caroline. She could
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