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'The Great Unwashed'

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

The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years

An economist's view of two million years of human history...

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

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

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...

The Great Pox

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

The Black Death

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian...

Innovation in the Social Sciences

Innovation is seen as the key to economic growth. But...