Pandemics and Plagues in History
When plague came to Wittenberg
Professor Lyndal Roper writes on the plague that hit Wittenberg in 1527 for the London Review of Books
Special issue: History of Science and Medicine in the Context of COVID-19
Across April and May 2020, Erica Charters and Koen Vermeir co-edited a spotlight issue of the journal Centaurus on the history of epidemics and the history of science and medicine in the context of COVID19.
Easier prevented in the beginnings
Paul Slack discusses the use of quarantine in the 17th Century
Professor Jane Humphries Discusses the Long-Run Impact of Pandemics
In a recent Royal Economic Society webinar, Professor Jane Humphries discussed the long-run impacts of pandemics, including the Black Death. The panel also included Professor Mark Bailey (East Anglia), Dr Romola Davenport (Cambridge), and Dr Erica Charters (Wolfson).
The Viennese Disease
Wartime analogies in the Covid-19 pandemic are commonplace. Western governments and journalists, in particular, have reached for the stories of national solidarity, resilience and rivalry cast during and after the Second World War, as the first peak of the pandemic in Europe coincided with the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory.
Articles from The Conversation
- COVID-19 vaccination: What we can learn from the great polio vaccine heist of 1959 - 23 February 2021
- COVID vaccines: countries have a history of acting selfishly – and when they do, everyone loses out - 1 February 2021
- COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago - 5 October 2020
- Past pandemics exacerbated disadvantages – what we can learn from them about the coronavirus recovery - 27 June 2020
- Why we need the human touch in contact tracing for coronavirus - 20 May 2020
- Quarantine used to be a normal part of life – and wasn’t much liked then, either - 8 April 2020
The James Ford Lectures in Hilary Term 2019
After the Black Death: Society, economy and the law in fourteenth-century England
In Hilary Term of 2019, Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia), spoke at the James Ford Lectures about society, economic and the law in the fourteenth-century following the Black Death.
"As the single greatest catastrophe in recorded history, the Black Death of 1348-9 continues to grip both the popular and scholarly imagination. This series of six lectures reassesses the main social, economic, legal and cultural responses to the great mortality during the second half of the fourteenth century and explores how they were shaped by the prevailing institutional framework—the rules, laws and belief systems—regulating social and economic behaviour in England."
You can access recordings of each of the of the lectures below:
