Tune in to our Facebook page on Thu 1 Jul at 1pm for our next online talk!

Take a closer look at our portrait of the 18^th century literary figure and medical pioneer, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with Corinna Henderson, Curatorial Trainee with Sheffield Museums.

Radical, outspoken, and yet somewhat overshadowed by her male counterparts in the history books, it was Lady Mary who first campaigned to bring the method of vaccination against disease to England. In this talk, we will take a detailed look at Lady Mary’s portrait from the collection at the Graves Gallery and explore her written accounts of living in Turkey in the early 1700s, where she originally observed the method of engrafting – an early form of inoculation – first-hand.