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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

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

A collage of magazine covers. These include The Tatler, London Life, The Graphic, and Britannia and Eve.

Guide to British Illustrated Periodicals, 1869–1970

British Online Archives

Published 3rd January, 2024 33 min read

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with sheep grazing and people walking in the foreground. Coloured wood engraving by W. H. Prior after an earlier engraving.

The Historic Records held at Bethlem Museum of the Mind

David Luck

Published 18th November, 2021 11 min read

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