What if the pages of an old book could tell us who touched them, what medicines they made, and even how their bodies ...

The Book Completion Award (BCA) ran from 2017 to 2020 and was relaunched in 2025.

In a world ruled by faith and fear, medieval medicine tried to make sense of sickness through the four humors, sacred rituals ...

Doctors have reminded Brits of the signs and symptoms of bowel cancer and other big killers, such as heart problems, as ...

How Bhakti poetry, Sufi courts, and manuscript cultures together shaped Hindi as a written language. A multilingual, material history of vernacular power—read more.

In medieval Europe, many upper-class women delegated breastfeeding to hired wet nurses, a practice deeply influenced by classical medicine, social status, and gender norms. This episode explores how ...

In July of 1988, Rod Stewart released his U.S. hit called Forever Young. The song was about missing his children growing up while he was on tour. The song was similar to Bob Dylan’s song by the same ...