Category: Macabre Museums

John Hunter is not a man who lends himself comfortably to summary. To attempt to write the entire life story and long list of his accomplishments in a single article would be impossible – not to mention dismissive of the breadth of his relentless quest to uncover the workings of the human body, and the…

Completed in 1703, St Thomas’ Church is a most unusual – and yet almost entirely forgotten – part of London, home to the Georgian operating theatre hidden in its attic. It sits awkwardly pressed between a row of tight terraced houses and a sperm bank, dwarfed on one side by the glass bulk of the…