Religion and the Marginalization of the ‘Empirical Occult’ in East Asia and the West: A Call for Cross-Cultural Collaborations

When the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine in London was still in existence, it was widely regarded the international flagship of medical history and attracted some of the brightest scholars and students from all around the world. One of the people I met there around a decade ago was Yu-chuan Wu from … Read more

Patreon Prize Draw: Win a Copy of Adam Crabtree’s From Mesmer to Freud

From its inception in 2013, Forbidden Histories has been a labour of love – I currently receive no funding for my research and pay all expenses to run this website, produce Youtube videos, and promote FH out of my own pocket. (Sadly, ad revenue and Amazon and AbeBooks affiliate commissions do not even begin to … Read more