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Unwelcome Guests: Human Diseases

Shakespeare wrote of island Britain as 'This fortress built by...

Lessons from the Past, Warnings for the Future

The concluding lecture takes the example of HIV/AIDS and discusses...

Six Degrees of Innovation: Investing in Green Technology - Panel Discussion

A panel discussion between Professor Richard Templer, Chris Hewett and...

'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...

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 Great Pox

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