Health

Health has played an fundamental role in human progress throughout history. Diseases have devastated civilizations while healthy societies prosper and thrive. Header image: Shutterstock.com

A London policeman directs traffic during a foggy day

How the Great Smog of London killed thousands in 1952
A colourised image of John Snow

The 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
Tom Hardy

5 inspirational campaigners who raised awareness of bowel cancer

The Covid memorial wall covered in hearts

History of the COVID-19 pandemic
Be Bowel Aware with Sky HISTORY

The history of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
Be Bowel Aware with Sky HISTORY

Learn about the symptoms of bowel cancer
An engraving by Pieter Brueghel the Elder showing three women afflicted with the plague | Wikipedia | Public Domain

The mystery of the dancing plague of 1518
The Triumph of Death

What was the worst year in history?
A photo montage showing a statue of Mary Seacole at St Thomas Hospital, London, alongside one of only two known photographs taken of Mary Seacole, taken around 1873.

The wonderful adventures of Mrs Seacole in many lands
A nun being bricked up behind a wall as punishment

Killing me slowly: 7 of the longest executions in history
A photograph of a scientist holding a petri dish with growing bacteria

The cautionary tale of Typhoid Mary, the original super-spreader
Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, sick with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston: Wikipedia

The forgotten agony - the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19
Engraving of a plague doctor

Pandemics that horrified humanity
Pushkin at the Mikhailovsky by Pyotr Konchalovsky

Great minds who triumphed in lockdown