Each year the department’s Annual Research Theme brings together colleagues working in different chronological periods and geographical regions to explore common themes.

This year, ‘Being Well; Being Ill; Experience and Materiality’ brings together historians who work on many different periods of history: from the medieval, through the early-modern and into the 20th century.

Watch this space for blogs on medical history.

*the above images are from Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical studies, so of which were on display in a 2013 exhibition ‘Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man‘ at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh*