Too often a biography is an incentive for historians to declare the life story of a person as
representative for a grand historical narrative. However, in order to expand our knowledge of …

Hospital in Victoria, Australia, on a trial basis from 1892 to 1898, was responsible for a
dramatic shift in the hospital's caseload towards surgical cases at the expense of chronic …

Frequent readers of Victorian novels are well familiar with the following convention: if a
character coughs, or suddenly appears to be tired or listless, he or she is likely to die before …