Health & Disease
Discover how Londoners have faced plagues, pandemics and illness with these objects, stories and blogs.
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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
From our experts
From our experts
Fired up about pipe finds: A Thames mudlark’s passion
While plain tobacco pipes are common, decorated ones are a special find for Germander Speedwell
