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For #ShroveTuesday: a pancake recipe from 16th-century cookery book, 'The Good Huswifes Jewell'. Although directed at a female audience, literacy rates among women were very low, so it is likely that these books were only purchased by a privileged few. ow.ly/5B6E50mBtFL
Listen 👏 up 👏 everyone👏. TOMORROW our measles ep drops, so tune in to find out everything you ever wanted to know about this vaccine-preventable disease that's causing outbreaks all over the world right now. Poster from National Library of Medicine
It's nearly spring so here’s some lovely crocus illustrations! Saffron (from crocus sativus) historically used to treat ailments such as gout & asthma, and believed to be an aphrodisiac. This 19thc Medical Botany text also claims it brings “ecstatic drunkenness”
How could you avoid catching the Black Death? Some of the best medical advice from c.1665 included smoking constantly, carrying a sponge soaked in vinegar and hanging oranges studded with cloves around your house. wellcomecollection.org/articles/XGaG2…
In 2018 there were 80,000 cases of measles - *triple* the number in 2017. 62% of these people were hospitalised. 72 died. The anti-vaxx movement is deadly. If you’re thinking of not vaccinating your kids, please, please chat to a doctor or nurse first. bmj.com/content/364/bm…
CATastrophe! While our current free exhibition, Cats on the Page, celebrates literary felines, our friends at @BLMedieval point out the times when cats on the page were a very literal problem for medieval manuscripts. #BLCats ow.ly/uymR50kM1g8
The Anglo-Saxon name for February was Sol-Monath which roughly means 'the month of cakes'. BRING BACK THE PAST NOW!
Aspiring data scientist? Master these fundamentals. by Peter Gleeson medium.com/p/aspiring-dat…
The visual digital turn: Using neural networks to study historical images academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-ar…
Trending topics and fake news are nothing new, as this intense 17th century pre-Twitter argument over superstition, the occult and disease shows. #FakeNews wellcomecollection.org/articles/XDdj3…
The #WBP2019 longlist is here for the 10th anniversary of the prize. Congratulations all! wellcomebookprize.org/what-is-new/20…
7 Steps to Mastering Basic Machine Learning with Python — 2019 Edition buff.ly/2COELKZ
🤩 Take a look at these wonderful posters of #WomenInSTEM from @neverthelesspod. Download new set of #STEM role model posters for free: medium.com/nevertheless-p… #STEMgirls w/@anjali28 @AdasList
Our friends at @freeCodeCamp put together an epic guide to contributing to Open Source. Read it, and commit 👩💻 medium.freecodecamp.org/the-definitive…
We love @rockasoo's incredible printable papercraft computers - free to download and make yourself! There's more tech on his website, and he plans to make more throughout 2019, so stay tuned! rockybergen.com/papercraft/
Naturalist, philosopher and theologian John Ray died #otd 1705. He published De Historia Piscium (A History of Fishes) in 1686. This drawing is from a volume in Hans Sloane's collection, inscribed ‘A book of fishes done at hamburgh, with Mr Ray’s notes’. Add MS 5308c
The #NewYearsResolution at the top of everyone’s list: learn to swim the 16th-century woodcut way. Now just to find two birds to perfect that technique… (From 'The Art of Swimming' which is considered the first English treatise on swimming)
How to think like a programmer — lessons in problem solving by @richardreeze medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-think-l…
‘For the day of the celebration of my birthday, I give you a warm invitation’ In this letter, Claudia Severa invites Sulpicia Lepidina to her birthday party in Roman Britain around AD 100. It's one of the first known samples of writing in Latin by a woman ow.ly/R2jf30nkakF
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Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval
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Wellcome Images @wellcomeimages
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EADH @eadh_org
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DSHjournal @DSHjournal
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BSHP @PharmHist
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History of Science @hssonline
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CHSTM @MancHSTM
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