Talk | The Dreadful Diseases of Victorian Worcester, 1890-1900

Name: Talk | The Dreadful Diseases of Victorian Worcester, 1890-1900
Start: 2025-03-01T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-01T17:00:00+00:00
Location: The Commandery, Sidbury, WR1 2HU Worcester, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sat Mar 01 2025 at 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

The Commandery, Sidbury, WR1 2HU Worcester, United Kingdom | Worcester, EN

Despite 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.
In 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.
This talk celebrates the opening of The Commandery’s new exhibition Wyldgate Lane – A Walk Through Victorian Worcester.
There will be the opportunity to purchase Kevin Goodman’s books at the talk.
BOOK HERE: https://www.museumsworcestershire.org.uk/events/talk-the-dreadful-diseases-of-victorian-worcester-1890-1900/
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Kevin 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.