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Parochial registration and the Bills of Mortality

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...

Why the Enlightenment still matters today

“The Enlightenment” has been regarded as a turning point in...

The Great Pox

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

Acting on Evidence: How Medical Research has informed Historical Drama

John Powell is an experienced medical advisor on a range...

The Black Death

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

Trading Places and Travelling - Musical Legacies of the Hanseatic League

The cities of Northern Europe developed their trading links with...

Cary Grant: Hollywood's exquisite, charming enigma

To millions of moviegoers around the world Cary Grant epitomises...