Health & Disease
Discover how Londoners have faced plagues, pandemics and illness with these objects, stories and blogs.
Top-Results
Top-Results
Science & Technology
Science & Technology
John Snow: Cholera & the Broad Street pump
Sure that the deadly disease spread through water, Snow traced a cholera outbreak to a Soho water pump
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Great Plague of 1665
An estimated 100,000 people died in London’s last major plague epidemic
War & Weapons
War & Weapons
Mary Seacole: Doctress of the Crimean War
The determined businesswoman and caregiver who looked after troops at war
