Kevin Brown Historian

History of health, medicine and naval history

A reminder of why the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum is important

A short visit to the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum while it remains closed amidst Covid restrictions still in force in hospitals.

September 23, 2021 · 1 Comment

The Empathy of Standing in the Footprints of the Past, a Photographic Palimpsest: A Modern Banker in the Role of a City Recruit to the Ditchers (Royal Fusiliers) in the Tower of London Moat in 1914

Amongst the most imaginative and stunning of commemorations of the Great War centenary was the installation of 888,246 ceramic poppies, representing the British and Commonwealth war dead in the dry … Continue reading

September 13, 2021 · 1 Comment