Paul Craddock

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Medical Historian and Filmmaker. Author of Spare Parts. One half of commonfilms.co

Close-up shot of Ananth Viswanathan's eyeball with the supertitle 'Filmed at the Royal College of Opthalmologists'
Roger Kneebone (left), in discussion with John McKenzie (right), about his ophthalmic instrument collection (foreground).
Cover of the Hardware Man's Daughter: Matthew Boulton and his "Dear Girl", by Shena Mason
Images from from The Costume of Great Britain by W.H Pyne
Diary entry reading 'I wonder where he is'
Diary entry from Friday 24th July, 1942, reading 'Air Raid in the Night'
John Williams, author of Stoner
A newly wed woman in a glass 'coffin', starving for 30 days for £250 in the 1930s
Master stone and wood carver Tony Webb, at his workbench in a infinity cove studio
Portraits of Somerville (left) and Whewell (right)
Common Knowledge Square Logo
Beverley Minster 'messenger hare' carving, about 1330
From a 1970s model of a computer. Man in polkadot tie and red tank top looking like he's explaining something technical to some lowlier technicians.
Celia Retiring – print depicting Celia removing her wig, false teeth, glass eye
Type Archive's elephant logo on a door
Type Archive's logo, showing an elephant with a curled snout
Marie Anne Leroudier, mother of vascular surgery (in my view!)
Géricault's ‘Le supplice, 1820-1824. Cato Street Conspirators At the Gallows
Technicians depicted as cherubs, operating Otto von Guericke's first air pump (Würzburg, 1657)
Isaac Cruikshank's 'The political champion turned resurrection man'. Shows William Cobbett flying over the Atlantic on a dragon, grasping Thomas Paine's skeleton