EditorialLateral view of a foetus head extended in the contrary position in a distorted pelvis during labour. Copperplate engraving by Andrew Bell after an illustration by Jan van Rymsdyk from William Smellie's A Set of Anatomical Tables, Charles Elliot, Edinbu...
EditorialJoseph Guillotin (1738-1814) in 1784. French physician and inventor of the guillotine. Contrary to popular belief, he did not die under the knife of his own invention. He proposed his invention as a more humane form of execution. Inv. P 1052.
EditorialConstituciones y otros Derechos de Catalu?a (Constitutions and other Rights of Catalonia), superfluous, contrary and corrected compiled of the Corts of King Philip IV. Volume Third. Printed in the House of Joan Pau Marti and Joseph Llopis Estampers, 17...
EditorialConstituciones y otros Derechos de Catalu?a (Constitutions and other Rights of Catalonia), superfluous, contrary and corrected compiled of the Corts of King Philip IV. Volume Third. Printed in the House of Joan Pau Marti and Joseph Llopis Estampers, 17...
EditorialConstituciones y otros Derechos de Catalu?a (Constitutions and other Rights of Catalonia), superfluous, contrary and corrected compiled of the Corts of King Philip IV. Volume Third. Printed in the House of Joan Pau Marti and Joseph Llopis Estampers, 17...
EditorialSkiiers and snowboarders wait to board the Squaw One Express lift at Squaw Valley Resort in Olympic Valley, Calif. on Dec. 12, 2020. (Cayce Clifford/The New York Times)
EditorialRecto: A horseman killing a stag, preliminary design for The Deer Hunt of Emperor Frederick Barbarosa and Ubaldo Ubaldini; Verso: Two galleys at sea, design for 'Orbis Longitudines' (Discovery of the Establishment of the Longitudes), pl. 16 from the No...
EditorialThe Swallow Packet, Or, A Belly full of good News, piping hot from Bristol, in spite of contrary Winds, (?) William Dent, active 17841793, 1792, Etching with watercolor on laid paper, Sheet: 7 7/8 x 10 3/4in. (20 x 27.3cm).
EditorialPamela asking the Blessing of Sr. Jacob Swinford, Mr. B's unkle, a rough old fox hunter, who after the most obstinate resolution to the contrary, relents, and becomes her great admirer, Mr. B. behind, whispering Lady Davers she having conceived the...,...
EditorialSen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) returns to the Senate Chamber after a break in the fourth day of former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial at the Capitol in Washington on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. (Brandon Bell/The New York Times)
EditorialAmyntor, or, A defence of Milton's life : containing I. A general apology for all writings of that kind. II. A catalogue of books attributed in the primitive times to Jesus Christ, his apostles, and other eminent persons ... III. A complete history of ...
EditorialThe tomb of the son of Simon Burley, the soldiers, in the north of the wall, on the contrary, the Supreme Tumuli near the altar of John of Lancaster, Duke of Ghent, Grave of Simon Burley, signed: After Hollar; Engraved by W. Find; Published by Lackingt...
EditorialThe Lawes of Virginia. Virginia was the first permanent English colony in North America, established by the London Company in 1607. The foundation charter of that new colony, drafted by Sir Edward Coke (d. 1634), stated that English law should be appli...
EditorialThe biography of Sir Thomas More (d. 1535), written by his son-in-law, William Roper (d. 1578), during the reign of Queen Mary (r. 1553–58), is reputedly the earliest personal biography in the English language. This page describes More’s trial in 1...
EditorialMagna Carta and women'. In 1915, to coincide with Magna Carta’s 700th anniversary, the suffragette campaigner, Helena Normanton (d. 1957), published this essay on ‘Magna Carta and Women’. Appearing in the periodical The Englishwoman, Normanton’...
EditorialThe biography of Sir Thomas More (d. 1535), written by his son-in-law, William Roper (d. 1578), during the reign of Queen Mary (r. 1553–58), is reputedly the earliest personal biography in the English language. This page describes More’s trial in 1...
EditorialThe jurors who refused to convict William Penn in 1670 were fined and imprisoned for contempt of court because they returned a verdict with which the judge disagreed. One juror, Edward Bushell, refused to pay the fine and instead sued for a writ of hab...
EditorialThe Lawes of Virginia. Virginia was the first permanent English colony in North America, established by the London Company in 1607. The foundation charter of that new colony, drafted by Sir Edward Coke (d. 1634), stated that English law should be appli...
Editorial‘A necessary doctrine and erudition for any Christian man, sette furth by the kynges majestie’. In 1543 an authoritative doctrinal formulary for Henry VIII's Church, known as the King’s Book, was published. Henry was indeed closely involved in it...