The first man reported in the world literature exhibiting habitual quadrupedal locomotion was discovered by a British traveler and writer on the famous Bagdad road near Havsa/Samsun on the middle Black Sea coast of Turkey (Childs, 1917). The man most probably belonged to a Greek family, since the region of Havsa was populated by Greek people during the time of the Ottoman Empire. He possibly be...

Writing in the mid-1940s, British civil servant Sir Stephen Tallents would reflect that interwar period saw a shift terms of how ‘thoughtful Britons’ viewed their empire: less ‘machinery and organisation’ more ‘growth nurture’. This essay interprets Tallents’ remarkable observation light history an organisation with which his career was closely associated: Empire Marketing Board (1926–33). By e...

an inpenetrable fortress, the Gibraltar of the East and one of the four Bastions of the British Empire, fell to the lightning Japanese advance that took a mere seventy days down the Malay Peninsula from the Thai border. On 15 August 1945, after the Americans had dropped the devastating nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese finally surrendered to the British. Between those two da...

Dr Mahmood holds Clinical Senior Lectureships at the Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, and Dundee. He is also a teaching sub dean for Undergraduate Faculty at the Dundee Medical School. He was made “Commander of the order of British Empire (CBE)” in the 2012 New year’s honours list for his services to the Women’s health. He was also admitted as an Honorary Fellow of the American College Of...

This is the first study of health in the Roman Empire to use the Siler and Gompertz-Makeham models of mortality to investigate the health consequences of the 43 AD conquest of Britain. The study examined late Iron Age and Romano-British populations (N = 518) from Dorset, England, which is the only region of Britain to display continuity in inhumation burial practice and cemetery use throughout ...

"We beg to call special attention to tlie following communique :? "The Indian Council of the St, John's Ambulance Association have noticed in th<i press that the proceeds of various entertainments, race meetings, etc., have been given to what is called " The Red Cross SocietyThe Council desire to point out that the Indian Branch of the St. John's Ambulance Association is the only Ambulance Soci...