Until recently, for many of us epidemiologists and medical researchers excepted the study of historical plague was something of an academic exercise. Almost none of us had experienced a deadly epidemic in our own society, or had to deal in person with its impacts. Covid-19 changed that: we endured it in real time, and felt its wide-ranging consequences at first hand.
It’s much easier now to appreciate that epidemics are social, economic and political events as much as medical ones, and to sympathise with the fear, confusion and conflict that we find in past epidemics.
In this talk, Vanessa Harding delves into the infamous, gruesome, and harmful contagious illnesses throughout history, uncovering their concealed tales. Besides detailing symptoms, origins, prevention, and remedies, you can learn about Edward Jenner's vaccine breakthrough, John Snow's pioneering disease research, and Louis Pasteur's germ theory of infection, along with countless other remarkable chronicles in the ceaseless human-disease battle.
Tickets £12 including a 20% donation to a host of restoration projects at Kensal Green Cemetery.
VANESSA HARDING
Vanessa Harding recently retired as Professor of London History at Birkbeck, University of London. She works on medieval and early modern London and aspects of its population, environment, health, mortality, and burial practices. The study of plague forms an important element in all these topics, and she has recently published several articles on plague in London, looking at its chronologies, geographies, and impact. Her current project is to create an atlas of London on the eve of the Great Fire of 1666 – that is, London as it was during the last great plague epidemic, so graphically chronicled by Pepys, Defoe, and others.
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Contagion Chronicles
includes a delightful gin Cocktail
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13:30 - 15:30 | £12.00 |
Address
Dissenters Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, 391 Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5AB
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Ladbroke Grove (Tube)
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