Background
Jan Bondeson was born on December 17, 1962, in Malmoe, Sweden. He was the son of Sven and Greta (Akesson) Bondeson.
1988
Lund, Skane, Sweden
Bondeson attended medical school at Lund University, Sweden, and qualified in 1988. He became a specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine and defended his Doctor of Philosophy thesis in 1996.
1988
Lund, Skane, Sweden
Bondeson attended medical school at Lund University, Sweden, and qualified in 1988. He became a specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine and defended his Doctor of Philosophy thesis in 1996.
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1997
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2002
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This is the remarkable story of the lives of individuals afflicted with severe deformities and how 17th and 18th-century British society reacted to their extraordinary bodies.
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2004
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A successor to his popular book "A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities" this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies. Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, dicephaly, and extreme hairiness; his broader theme, however, is the infinite range of human experience.
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2004
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2005
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2005
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This is the story of the lives of individuals afflicted with severe deformities and how 17th and 18th century British society reacted to their extraordinary bodies.
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2006
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Jan Bondeson presents tales from across the folklore of the animal kingdom, a learned pig more admired than Sir Isaac Newton by the English public, an elephant that Lord Byron wanted to employ as his butler, a dancing horse whose skills in mathematics were praised by William Shakespeare, and many more.
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2006
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The amazing tale of Britain's first celebrity stalker. After her coronation in 1838, Queen Victoria was a frightened young woman. She was relentlessly pursued by a weird teenager, Edward, 'the Boy' Jones, who had an uncanny ability to sneak into Buckingham Palace without being detected. Once, he broke into her bedroom and stole her underwear, and at least twice he sat on the throne. 'If he had come into my bedroom, how frightened I would have been', the Queen wrote in her journal after the Boy Jones had been hauled out from underneath a sofa in her dressing room. This book tells the full story of the Boy Jones, one of the first celerity stalkers in history: his heady days as a media celebrity, and the long and bitter years as a Britain's galley slave, imprisoned without charge or trial. It suggests that 'stalking' is not a modern phenomenon, rather a relabeling of aberrant human behaviour that has been known for centuries. It also raises the moral question of what lengths the authorities should go to 'remove' some royal stalker or potential assassin, since the Boy Jones was held captive in breach of habeas corpus for longer than any wartime fascist, IRA member or Moslem terrorist.
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2010
(In the 1750s, the Learned English Dog was a sensation in ...)
In the 1750s, the Learned English Dog was a sensation in London: this spelling and calculating border collie was even thought to be a reincarnation of Pythagoras. The acting Newfoundland dog Carlo, active in London from 1803 until 1811, had plays specially written for him, involving tackling villains, liberating prisoners, and diving into artificial lakes on stage to save drowning children.
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2013
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In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom. Throughout he recounts - and in some instances solves - mysteries of the natural world which have puzzled scientists for centuries. Heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings, the book presents astounding tales from across the rich folklore of animals: a learned pig more admired than Sir Isaac Newton by the English public, an elephant that Lord Byron wanted to employ as his butler, a dancing horse whose skills in mathematics were praised by William Shakespeare, and, of course, the extraordinary creature known as the Feejee Mermaid.
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2014
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In that stately Fitzrovia house, the butler was murdered by a disgruntled pantry-boy; in that one, a king’s housekeeper lost her life. In that Kensington flat, a demented playboy murdered a prostitute for kicks; in that Gloucester Road basement, ‘Acid Bath’ Haigh was busy digesting the bodies of his victims. In those two elegant Chelsea houses, located in peaceful garden squares, a clergyman and his housekeeper were brutally done to death in 1870. In that peaceful little house, not far from Camden Road Station, a woman murdered her rival, dismembered the body, and disposed of it using an old-fashioned perambulator. In that peaceful pub near the Thames, the landlady was murdered in 1920, and the killer was never found. In one Islington house, George Joseph Smith disposed of one of his ‘Brides in the Bath’; in another, Annie Walters, the notorious baby farmer, was plying her deadly trade; in a third, a brilliant playwright was brutally murdered by his homosexual lover.This book deals with central London’s architecture of capital crime: houses inside which celebrated murders have been committed. Pursue Lord Lucan as he escapes from his elegant Belgravia house, leaving the dead nanny in the basement; prowl the Soho streets once haunted by an elusive serial killer; and follow in the murderous footsteps of the Blackout Ripper and the serial killer Patrick Mackay. And read about London’s many forgotten murders, where only the murder houses remain to tell a tale.
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2015
(Jack the Ripper is the quintessential Victorian serial ki...)
Jack the Ripper is the quintessential Victorian serial killer, and the debate continues with regard to the number of his victims. But there is a profusion of unsolved murders of London women from late Victorian times, and this book presents 11 of the most gruesome and mysterious of them. Marvel at the convoluted Kingswood Mystery and the unsolved Cannon Street Murder of 1866; shudder at the Hoxton Horror and the Great Coram Street Murder of 1872; be puzzled by the West Ham Disappearances and by the unsolved railway murder of Elizabeth Camp in 1898. There are many books about the Whitechapel fiend, but this is the first one to detail the ghoulish handiwork of the Ripper's rivals. Jack the Ripper is the quintessential Victorian serial killer, and the debate continues with regard to the number of his victims.
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2016
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When Jack the Ripper first terrorized the streets of London, the Daily Telegraph reported that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood’s murderer. Grimwood was a high-class prostitute, and on May 26, 1838 she brought a client home with her. The next morning she was found with her throat cut and her abdomen viciously "ripped." The client was nowhere to be seen. The convoluted investigation, with suspects ranging from an alcoholic bricklayer to a royal duke, was followed by Londoners with great interest, including Charles Dickens, who based Nancy’s death in Oliver Twist on Grimwood’s. There was much dismay when the murder remained unsolved. Jan Bondeson links this murder with a series of other opportunist early Victorian slayings, and, in putting forward a credible new suspect, concludes that the Ripper of Waterloo Road was, in fact, a serial killer.
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2017
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This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny journal the Illustrated Police News between 1867 and 1900. Some of them are famous, like the Bravo Mystery of 1876, the Llangibby Massacre of 1878 and the Mrs Pearcey case of 1890; others are little-known, like the Acton Atrocity of 1880, the Ramsgate Mystery of 1893 and the Grafton Street Murder of 1894. Take your ticket for the house of horrors.
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2018
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This book makes use of a privately held archive of Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre, and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage; the doctors congregate around the bed of the Sleeping Frenchman of Soho; Miss Vint demonstrates her Reincarnated Cats; scantily dressed Female Somnambulists tumble from the roofs. The White Gorilla takes a swig from its tankard of beer, eagles come swooping from the sky to carry off little children, and the Rat-Killing Monkey of Manchester goes on a rampage. Each one of these tales is a window into an era that encapsulated public probity and private hysteria in the strangest of ways.
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2019
lecturer rheumatologist scientist author
Jan Bondeson was born on December 17, 1962, in Malmoe, Sweden. He was the son of Sven and Greta (Akesson) Bondeson.
Bondeson attended medical school at Lund University, Sweden, and qualified in 1988. He became a specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine, and defended his Doctor of Philosophy thesis in 1996.
From 1988 till 1990 Jan Bondeson was a resident at Malmoe University Hospital in Malmoe, Sweden. From 1990 till 1995 Jan Bondeson worked as a registrar. From 1995 till 1996 he became a senior registrar. From 1996 till 2000 Jan Bondeson worked as a research fellow at Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London, England. In 2000, he was promoted to become a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at Cardiff University, doing a mixture of clinical work, teaching, and research. Here, his research has concentrated on the role of synovial macrophages in osteoarthritis and the regulation of degradative enzymes in this disease. Bondeson has more than a hundred publications in refereed scientific journals, and continuing research grant support from Arthritis Research UK.
Jan Bondeson became a pioneer of the experimental use of adenoviral gene transfer to study intracellular signalling, and investigate the regulation of important cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases.
Bondeson has more than a hundred publications in refereed scientific journals, and continuing research grant support from Arthritis Research UK.
(Jan Bondeson presents tales from across the folklore of t...)
2006(A successor to his popular book "A Cabinet of Medical Cur...)
2004(This is the remarkable story of the lives of individuals ...)
2004(When Jack the Ripper first terrorized the streets of Lond...)
2017(This is the story of the lives of individuals afflicted w...)
2006(In the 1750s, the Learned English Dog was a sensation in ...)
2013(In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten f...)
2014(This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder co...)
2018(This book makes use of a privately held archive of Illust...)
2019(In that stately Fitzrovia house, the butler was murdered ...)
2015(Jack the Ripper is the quintessential Victorian serial ki...)
2016(The amazing tale of Britain's first celebrity stalker. Af...)
2010Quotations: "In addition to my books, I have written more than sixty articles published in scholarly periodicals. I am still working full-time as a doctor and medical scientist, but one day I hope to write full-time."
Jan Bondeson is a member of Fellow Royal Society Medicine. As he was interested in cars so much, he was also a member TVR Car Club in United Kingdom and Morgan Sports Car Club.
