Stories
- Article
The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
- Article
Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
- Article
Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Cholera"
Date: 1968-1978Reference: PP/VAN/B/10Part of: Van Heyningen, William Edward (1911-1989)- Archives and manuscripts
Cholera
Date: 1947-1948Reference: WA/PRL/HP/Sub/30/1Part of: Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories- Videos
Cholera.
Date: 2005
- Books
- Online
Cholera / by Carroll Dunham.
Dunham, Carroll, 1828-1877.Date: 1866- Books
Cholera : the biography / Christopher Hamlin.
Hamlin, Christopher, 1951-Date: 2009