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'The Great Unwashed'

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was...

The Age of the Universe

Detailed observations of galaxies, clusters, and the fine structures in...

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century...

Atmospheric Phenomena

When light from the Sun and the Moon enters our...

Using Mortality to Compare the Health of Populations

New Insights Into Mortality Patterns of Early Modern Cities

Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction

An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all...

X-ray Astrophysics - The high energy cosmos

X-radiation is only emitted by the hottest and most energetic...

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been...