By Shakespeare’s Death 402 years ago next Monday the Playwright William Shakespeare died – well he is thought to have died on the 23rd April 1616. Aged just 52, he had recently retired to his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, where his body was interred in the local parish church on
A Dubious Death
Over the past couple of weeks I have been reading through some of the correspondence of the Radcliffe Family, who lived in Hitchin in the eighteenth century. One case has been copied out of the notes of Sir Hans Sloane, a successful medical practitioner who treated Queen Anne and Kings George
By Six Lessons From a Child’s Death
In a poignant diary entry dissenting minister and local physician James Clegg (1669-1755) described the death of one of his infant sons from convulsions. In March 1720 he noted that ‘My dear child Ebenezer was seized about the first day of this month with very strong convulsions which continued above