Resurrection, Corpse Art, and How the Father of Modern Surgery Stole the Irish Giant

Something a little spooky for Christmas Eve, a new guest post for Dirty, Sexy History. This is a background episode I had to cut from The 19th Century Underworld because of space... By the middle of the eighteenth century, medical science in Britain was rapidly evolving. Surgeons had split from the Worshipful Company of Barbers as a…

The Lays of Ancient Rome

A guest post for Dirty, Sexy History - 'Skipping to the good stuff with Jessica Cale...' On August 24, 79AD, the day after Vulcanalia, the festival of the god of fire, Hell came to the Gulf of Naples. Vesuvius erupted and a searing pyroclastic cloud scorched, choked and buried the prosperous provincial Roman cities of…