the historical context
'Blind-man's buff' - Punch Magazine September 1888
Source: Wikipedia
- BBC British History
- The Victorian era (1837-1901) (https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/)
- the lead-in to World War One (1901-1918) (https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/)
- World War II (1918-1945) (https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/)
- the making of modern Britain (1945- present) (https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/)
- A history of modern Britain. Marr A (2009) An exceptionally good 'political' history of modern Britain ... Buy it here
- Online resources - British history from 1800 (https://bubl.ac.uk/link/b/britishhistoryfrom1800.htm)
- The Victorian Web - social history (https://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html)
- The Edwardian era - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian_era)
- the 1900s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900s_%28decade%29)
- the 1910s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910s)
- the 1920s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s)
- the 1930s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930s)
- the 1940s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940s)
- the 1950s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s)
- a history of medicine in Britain (https://www.infobritain.co.uk/History_Of_Medicine.htm)
- National Library of Medidicine - History of medicine (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html) and profiles in science (https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/)
- the Victorian Dictionary
Fatal Facility; or, Poisons for the Asking.
Child. 'Please, Mister, will you be so good as to fill this bottle again with lodnum, and let mother have another pound and a half of arsenic for the rats (!)' Duly Qualified Chemist. 'Certainly, Ma'am. Is there any other article?'.
Punch Magazine 8th September 1849 (John Leech)
The anatomy room - by Michael Marcynuk
(follow this link to see his illustrations and animations, including the story of Burke and Hare)
