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A black and white document wit cursive script. It is titled Navigation Continued.

British Mercantile Trade and the Royal Navy During the Long Eighteenth Century

James Davey

Published 10th January, 2025 21 min read

A painting of John Wood Approaching Bombay, c1850. There is a large ship with sails set against a pink sky.

Age of Empires: British Overseas Trade from Queen Elizabeth I to King George III

Pete Maw

Published 8th January, 2025 27 min read

An aged piece of paper with various fonts that read Cholera. Evidence of Facts. Taken by the British College of Health, New Road, London, in cases of cholera.

Miasmas and Germs: Understandings of Cholera in Nineteenth Century Britain

Sandra Hempel

Published 3rd September, 2024 16 min read

A piece of aged paper with a map of Europe and Asia on it. On it is written Contagious Cholera.

Cholera

Jonathan Kennedy

Published 24th July, 2024 18 min read

A typewritten document from September 1944, stamped as Secret. It is from the War Cabinet, and has a heading of Re-education of German Prisoners of War.

Re-educating German POWs: British Policy and Public Initiatives

Alan Malpass

Published 20th June, 2024 20 min read

A tan coloured file cover that reads Defence 1. There is a stamped crest above the title of the file Handbook of Instructions for the Postal Censorship Staff.

Censorship: Policy and Practice During the Second World War

Henry Irving

Published 6th June, 2024 11 min read

An illustration of a man sick with the flu. His skin is paling, he lies down on a pillow, and his eyes are struggling to open. It reads This illustrates a pronounced degree of the heliotrope cyanosis

Influenza: the “thief in the night”

Mark Honigsbaum

Published 4th April, 2024 19 min read

A typed document that features a printed crest at the top, followed by text that reads Rules and Orders.

Records of Pandemics at The National Archives (UK)

Christopher Day

Published 4th April, 2024 24 min read

An aged, tanned piece of paper covered in text, with the title reading A Directory for the Poor against the Plague and Infectious Diseases.

What is Disease?

Robert Hicks

Published 4th April, 2024 18 min read

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