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SUMMARY:Talk | The Dreadful Diseases of Victorian Worcester, 1890-1900
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 1 March 2025, 4 – 5pm | The Commandery\nDespite being a city of wealth, during the Victorian period, many inhabitants of Worcester shared cramped, overcrowded homes, with poor access to clean water leading to the spread of several deadly diseases.\nIn this talk hosted in The Commandery’s beautiful medieval Great Hall, author and medical historian Kevin Goodman will explore what these diseases were and the treatment and medical care available to the people of Worcester at the time.\nThis talk celebrates the opening of The Commandery’s new exhibition Wyldgate Lane – A Walk Through Victorian Worcester.\n£7; please book via the link below.\nThere will be the opportunity to purchase Kevin Goodman’s books at the talk.\nKevin Goodman is an author and medical historian who has appeared in documentaries for the Smithsonian Channel (Mystic Britain), Channel 5 (The Great Plague and The Black Death) and History Hit, and specialises in the history of health and disease in the West Midlands.\nBook this talk\nMore talks by Kevin Goodman at The Commandery\nMedieval Medicine: the Facts and the Fiction | Saturday 17 May 2025\nMedieval medicine did not solely consist of sticking leeches on a person, and while the philosophy behind it may be considered strange today, it was a holistic approach integrating the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual.\nIn this talk hosted in The Commandery’s beautiful medieval Great Hall, author and medical historian Kevin Goodman, hear about the reality of medieval health, medicine and disease.\nFind out more and book now.\n\n
URL:https://www.museumsworcestershire.org.uk/events/talk-the-dreadful-diseases-of-victorian-worcester-1890-1900/
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LOCATION:The Commandery, Sidbury, Worcester, WR1 2HU
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