Stories
- Article
The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Ships surgeons
Date: 1908-1950sReference: SA/BMA/C.158-162Part of: British Medical Association- Digital Images
- Online
Ships used as smallpox isolation hospitals.
- Books
Ships-- and people / by J.C.H. Beaumont.
Beaumont, J. C. H. (John Charles Hetherington), 1867-Date: [1926]- Pictures
Ships in a dock. Drawing by H. Campbell, 1968.
Campbell, Hugh, active approximately 1968.Date: 2.8.68 [2 August 1968]Reference: 2917952iPart of: Adamson Collection- Student dissertations
Ships of mercy : the hospital ship in the first World War / David Noonan.
Noonan, David.Date: 1999