Doctor bleeding a patient

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Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

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Mary Seacole is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. This is a contemporary painting of her

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Mary SeacoleVictorian celebrity, joyful hotelier and Crimean nurse

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17th-century London: a city shaped by catastrophe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US

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Elizabeth BlackwellThe ‘first female doctor’, who entered medicine to prove a point

Illustration of the Black Death from the Chroicles of Gilles Li Muisis (1272-1352), Abbaye Saint-Martin de Tournai (Photo by Alamy)

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Student nurse Dorothy Norris

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A brief guide to the history of the NHS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The race for vaccines: lessons from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edward Jenner performs a vaccination, in an 1802 cartoon that lampoons the notion that being vaccinated will turn you into a cow

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The race for a cure: how we found vaccines for 4 of history's most dangerous diseases. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(L to R) Isaac Newton, Henry VIII and Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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How did people cope with ‘lockdowns’ of the past? And were they really all so productive?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

19th century advert for snuff

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Q&AWhat was snuff?

Edward Jenner

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Q&AWhen did medical practitioners start to be called ‘doctor’?

Alfred Nobel (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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The history of the Nobel Prizes

Map of the universe, miniature from The Tales of Luqman, Arabic manuscript, 1583. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Ingenious medieval science. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dr Edward Jenner, a British physician, performing his first vaccination on James Phipps, a boy of eight, in 1796. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The Regency era: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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How Covid-19 is forcing universities to change

Photographs documenting the facial reconstruction of a soldier whose cheek was extensively wounded during the Battle of the Somme

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What happened to the 8 million people who were disabled during WW1?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dr Michael Mosley holds up a tapeworm

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Tapeworms, arsenic and magic soap: fact-checking history’s weirdest fad diets and weight-loss gimmicks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why was there a backlash against face masks during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The birth pains of the NHS: how Britain's National Health Service was created. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The bikini was showcased to the world for the first time in July 1946. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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8 historical events that happened in July

Japanese school girls wear protective masks to guard against the influenza outbreak, February 1920. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving depicting a scene of chaos at Bethlem Royal Hospital

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Bethlem Royal Hospital: why did the infamous Bedlam asylum have such a fearsome reputation?

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Surviving the Great Plague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A couple get amorous in this 14th-century illustration

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Call the medieval sex doctor: how 7 problems might have been treated in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elma Brenner on medieval wellbeing: "People in the Middle Ages were absolutely focused on staying healthy"

Dissection of human cadaver by physicians

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