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Join Sara Masinelli in this online event looking at how faith and religion have influenced responses to epidemics in the past and how these reactions have been represented in 18th- and 19th-century Christian Italian prints.

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.

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

Pioneering epidemiologist Dr Alice Stewart realised how things in our daily lives could be as deadly as any infectious disease.

The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.

Posters by artists who turned their art into activism to support their communities and raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

Barack Obama’s former Surgeon General explores the global loneliness epidemic – and how we can overcome it.

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.

Two cultural historians share their research recovering hidden histories of people affected during the HIV/ AIDS epidemic.

A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

Come and watch this screening of a work-in-progress documentary ‘Dis-Ease’ by Mariam Ghani, which uses archive footage to explore how we respond to sickness and epidemics.

Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed, the streets emptied and bodies piled up. Read Samuel Pepys’s account of how the city pulled through.

Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.

Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.

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.

Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.

A gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography.

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.