Why blog?

It’s been some months now since I started writing this blog, and my only regret is that I didn’t start sooner.  Maybe this is a good time for a moment’s reflection on what I’m doing, and why I’m doing it. The research that my writing here is based on, particularly that on medicine and medical…

Who treated the sick in Anglo-Saxon England?

Recently in the UK there have been a number of strikes by hospital doctors over the new contract handed to them by the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt.  On a couple of these occasions, I spent a brief period, before going to work in the morning, holding banners with doctors and their supporters at my local…