In this section, you will find a range of resources, images, links and engagement activities related to the topic of Disease and Society that have been used successfully within the CSHHH Journeys in Health History School Engagement Project.
In this section, you will find a range of resources, images, links and engagement activities related to the topic of body snatching and dealing with corpses that have been used successfully within the CSHHH Journeys in Health History School Engagement Project.
Lessons:
Pox, Pus and Plague: Lesson Breakdown
Pox, Pus and Bandages – Lesson Presentation
Resources and activities:
This activity encouraged the pupils to use their knowledge of historical diseases and the information presented during the lesson presentation to identify different types of historical diseases and their symptoms.
Articles:
Black Death – Article from BBC History
The Outsider Series – A collection of articles from the Wellcome Collection which considers the spread of some of the deadliest diseases in history.
The Stranger who Started an Epidemic: Yellow Fever 1853
The Tradesman who Confronted the Pestilence: The Great Plague – 1665
The cook who became a pariah: Typhoid Mary 1907
The Colonist Who Faced the Blue Terror: Cholera 1857
The Child whose Town Rejected Vaccines: Smallpox 1896
The Prostitute whose Pox Inspired Feminists: Syphilis 1875
Audio Visual:
Infested with malaria | Biology – Infested! Living with parasites
16th and 17th Century Medicine | Secondary History – Medicine Through Time
Maps:
Published in 1913 – A series of maps depicting London’s “sites of medical interest”.
Images:
Journeys Through Health History 