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London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - A well-scrubbed world

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - Dr William Harvey and the seventeenth-century medical revolution

19th Century: Cholera

Professor Bohumil Drassar, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine...

Geometry: A New Weapon in the Fight Against Viruses

The Joint London Mathematical Society/Gresham College Annual Lecture Viruses like...

17th Century: Plague

Stephen Porter, Assistant Editor, Survey of London Section, English Heritage...

Front line infectious disease control at Britain's borders

The series ended with a lecture bringing us up-to-date with...

A History of Barts, Britain's Oldest Hospital

St Bartholomew’s is the oldest hospital in England still operating...

The Origins of the NHS

This lecture looks at the origins of the NHS; there...

Depression: Reality and Myth

Professor Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS, Professor of Biology as Applied...