Stories
- 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.
- Article
Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
- Article
Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
- Article
Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Cholera Research Laboratory, Dacca
Cholera Research Laboratory, Dacca, BangladeshDate: 1945-1983Reference: GC/209- Books
Cholera : theory and treatment in nineteenth century India / by Ira Klein.
Klein, Ira (Ira Norman), 1931-Date: 1980- Books
Epidemics laid low : a history of what happened in rich countries / Patrice Bourdelais ; translated by Bart K. Holland.
Bourdelais, Patrice.Date: 2006- Videos
Medical mavericks - the history of self-experimentation. Part 4, Beating infection.
Date: 2007- Books
- Online
A practical treatise on epidemic cholera, ague, and dysentery : illustrating the principles of treatment by their anatomical physiology, pointing out their consanguinity as members of the same great epidemic, and explaining the long disputed questions of their contagion and westering inclination : to which is added a Persian treatise on plague and cholera / by W.G. Maxwell.
Maxwell, W. G. (William Graham), 1803-Date: 1838