Tag: Health AudioCholera! Public health in mid-19th century BritainTuesday 2 February 2021The 1848-1849 cholera epidemic in England and Wales was described by a government report...On the RecordCivil rights & Public healthThursday 29 October 2020In 1921, W E B Du Bois (the African American thinker and NAACP co-founder)...AudioMorbidity and mortality on convict voyages to 19th century AustraliaFriday 30 November 2012Between 1803 and 1853 some 67,000 convicts were transported from England and Ireland to...AudioAnxiety, dread and disease: British ports 1834-1870Friday 13 January 2012As Britain’s status as the ‘workshop of the world’ grew, so did the new...AudioRevolting to humanity: histories of mental healthFriday 20 May 2011The 19th century ushered in a new way of seeing mental health. For the...AudioBroadmoor revealed: The Victorian asylumFriday 25 February 2011Broadmoor Hospital opened in 1863 and has always admitted patients who would otherwise have...AudioDamaged, disturbed and dismembered: disability and war in the 20th centuryMonday 24 January 2011Wars in the 20th century have been responsible for the deaths of millions of...AudioNaval medical officers’ journals and the history of medicineFriday 17 December 2010The naval medical officers’ journals of ADM 101 provide a coherent view of the...AudioMadame Rachel of Bond StreetFriday 10 December 2010Author Helen Rappaport discusses the subject of her newest book, Beautiful For Ever: Madame...