Who was a model for Mary Shelley’s protagonist? Candidates include a 17th-century alchemist and Charles Darwin’s grandfather.

Work is progressing to build a new primary school in Lichfield which is set to welcome its first pupils in 2026.

Mooch around independent shops, visit a chocolate tea room, wander a regency street that feels like France and relax in a ...

His grandfathers had both been important figures of the Enlightenment: Josiah Wedgewood, industrialist and anti-slavery campaigner, and Erasmus Darwin, a doctor whose book ‘Zoonomia’ had set ...

As the story goes, the Scottish inventor James Watt envisioned how steam engines should work on one day in 1765, when he was ...

Developed into one of the UK's first true tourist destinations, this town is often referred to as being the ultimate seaside spot despite having no sea for miles.

In his excellent book, From Soul to Mind: The Emergence of Psychology from Erasmus Darwin to William James, Edward Reed tells the story of psychology prior to the modern conception. Reed argues ...

Birmingham has once again become the focus of another national newspaper’s opinion section. Dr Steve McCabe criticises the ...

Robert Darwin, his father, was a freethinker, the son of the renowned poet, doctor, freethinker, dissenter, and libertine Erasmus Darwin. His mother, Susannah, was the daughter of the famous and ...

Myth #3: DCC Can Lead To Severe Post Birth Bleeding Early cord clamping was first documented as being harmful to babies as long ago as 1801 by Erasmus Darwin, who wrote: “Another thing very injurious ...