Author: Chris Hilton

As London reels under its worst “snow event” for 18 years, we’re bombarded with archive footage of previous worst winters: 1947 and 1962/3 in particular. The most marvellous of London’s winter events, however, last happened nearly 200 years ago: the… Continue reading

Newly added to the online catalogue of Wellcome Library archives: two letters by the French novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907). Huysmans is most famous for the novel À rebours (Against Nature), a landmark of the decadent movement whose millionaire “hero”, Des… Continue reading