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Here is a good list of Music Jane Austen would have heard/sung/played. Jane Austen Music

 Courtesy of Ian Visits here are some interesting events in late Oct - early november Guided tours of the Albert Memorial - Kensington Gardens - The Royal Parks 17th-century-revolution in Book reading The king in the Car Park - Gresham Lecture Virtual Autopsy -  Death of a king  - the Old Operating Theatre Museum The Great Exhibition and Steam Punk

I must visit this pharmacy museum! Startseite - Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel

After a little bit of digging around. I discovered some very interesting facts about printing in Southwark.  Dawn Kemp, the new Director of the Old Operating Theatre Museum alerted me to Peter Treveris, the Southwark based printer of the first illustrated Herbal in England, ( Peter Treveris’ Grete herball ). I had not heard of this herbal before, and wondered if it had anything to do with the printing of the first Bible in English by Miles Coverdale in the grounds of St Thomas Hospital, Southwark in 1537. Title Page of Grete Herball A little bit of research established that Treveris was established as a printer at the 'sygne of the wodows'  in 1516.  ( The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London , 1501–1557  By Peter W. M. Blayney; ).  Was this the 'Sign of the Widows'? Treveris was an alien, possibly from Trier, and was a publisher/translator. However,  what was a great discovering was that Treveris also published the 'Handywo...

I am working on a project I began many years ago, and have decided to try out Authoromy, which is a writer's platform.  I have also published an early version of the book on Feedaread. So, if you want to have a look at it - its a very early draft and needs lots of work. The 4 Humours of Shakespeare | Authonomy

This is the book on Florence Nightingale by the former director of the Florence Nightingale Museum in London. Amazon.co.uk: alex Attewell Well worth a read.

A Triple Tragedy: How Princess Charlotte’s Death in 1817 Changed Obstetrics « Jane Austen's World here is a more detailed description

International Journal of Morphology - El Teatrum Anatomicum en la Historia y Hoy

Really good pictures and description of the Asceplion at Pergamon. http://www.welcometohosanna.com/REVELATION/Pergamum.html