The end of the nineteenth century was a period of unprecedented upheaval. Factories sprouted in masses, railways were laid at great length, urbanisation sprawled and beckoned, and the masses were organised capitalistically and politically. All of this happened at dizzying speed. This was the moment the modern world crashed together and dragged people from the…

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In December 1940, a 43-year-old policeman in London scratched his face on a rose bush. The small wound quickly turned septic, his face ballooned with abscesses and pus, one eye became infected and had to be removed, and the infection spread to his arm and lungs. He was in a huge amount of pain. An…

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