Before the mid 19th century, medicine had changed very little since ancient times. There was no germ theory or anesthesia and medical practitioners were poorly trained and equipped to deal with the myriad...

In the mid 19th century, radical developments in science and technology helped revolutionize the treatment and understanding of illness and disease. After centuries of medicine remaining almost unchanged...

War during the Georgian and Regency eras wasn't pretty, and neither were the wounds and treatments soldiers and sailors suffered in the heat of battle. Even if a soldier survived an injury, there was...

In the past, women looked upon childbirth with both excitement and fear. They never knew if it was the start of a new life with a baby or the end of their own. All the complications of pregnancy and delivery...

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl, delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to spy on the Duchess...

Before Princess Margaret, before Duchess Meghan, there was Princess Louise: royal rebel.As the fourth daughter of the perpetually in-mourning Queen Victoria, Princess Louise’s life is more a gilded prison...