Health & Disease

With Victorian baths and Olympic arenas, Londoners can take a dip in pools built across three centuries

Plague killed over half of the city’s population between 1348 and 1352

A pioneering sanctuary for abandoned children

Caring for London on the same Smithfield spot since 1123

The ‘pump of death’ and the start of the East End

A 17th-century herbalist who challenged the medical establishment

An era of massive change for the world’s largest city