Pandemics

Cherilyn Tillman provides a brief history of tuberculosis and talks about the impact of the disease on her family in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Tuberculosis handout (pdf)

Cathy Carman uses the diary of Devon vicar to describe the scenes in a Devon village during the cholera outbreak of 1832.

In this presentation Stephen Hawke explores the major cholera outbreak in the 1830s in south-west England and also the later outbreaks of the pandemic in the UK in the 19th century.