Search results

'The Great Unwashed'

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

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

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

Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to be avoided

How closely are we related to each other, and how...

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...

The Evolution of Vision

Did the eye evolve and, if so, how? Creationists and...

The Great Pox

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

What Counts? What Works? What Matters?

In 2009, David Cameron in his Hugo Young memorial lecture...