Stories
- In pictures
Why we still need quarantine
For years, quarantine has been an important measure to curb the spread of infection and avert further deaths. Discover the way it has been used in the past and why it is still necessary today.
- Photo story
Wool, fleas, plague
During the bubonic plague epidemic of 1665-6, the residents of Eyam in Derbyshire quarantined themselves to help prevent the disease spreading. Simon Norfolk tells the story of this small community’s sacrifice.
- Comic
Isolation
Quarantine translation: terror with undertones of boredom and low level anxiety.
- Article
Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
Catalogue
- Books
Quarantine zine.
Date: 2020- Archives and manuscripts
Quarantine directives
Date: 1813Reference: WMS/Amer.5Part of: Mexico: Junta de Sanidad- Books
- Online
Quarantine regulations as approved by the National Quarantine and Sanitary Association of the United States, 1860.
National Quarantine and Sanitary Convention.Date: 1860- Books
Quarantine / by V.D. Vandervelde, L. de Zanche.
Vandervelde, V. Denis.Date: 1985- Books
Quarantine : local and global histories / edited by Alison Bashford.
Date: 2016