The Pleasures and Perils of Smoking in Calverley’s “Ode to Tobacco”
Politicians now promise a “smoke-free” UK, but one Cambridge plaque suggests an alternative plan: doctors be damned, “take a fresh cigar!”
Month: September 2024
York Asylum in Flames: Godfrey Higgins and the Abuse Scandal of 1813
In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, we look at another historic struggle to assign blame for shocking neglect and a deadly fire.
