Discover the modern history of typhoid control.
Typhoidland curator Claas Kirchhelle’s engaging history of typhoid uses the stories of both literary characters and real-life figures to trace typhoid’s transformation from a mysterious scourge into a controllable microbial threat. The book is available at Scala: Arts & Heritage
The Dublin project ‘Typhoid, cockles and terrorism’ begins
Explore the connections between imperial and revolutionary public health politics in 20th century. We bring to life a mixture of historical data about disease and sanitation infrastructure to understand why British interventions proved impractical in Dublin and how they were perceived by local populations.
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