Subscribe
Newsletter sign up
Download app
Join our Academy
The official website for BBC History Magazine
Period
Back to
Main menu
Ancient Egypt
Roman
Viking
Anglo-Saxon
Medieval
Tudor
Elizabethan
Georgian
Victorian
Second World War
Back to
Period
Browse all periods
People
Back to
Main menu
Tutankhamun
Richard III
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
Winston Churchill
Cleopatra
Napoleon Bonaparte
Back to
People
Browse all people
Topics
Back to
Main menu
Kings and queens
Weird and wonderful
Sex and love
Social history
Religious history
Women's history
Historical Q&As
Heritage visits
History hero
Historical recipes
Turning points in British History
Back to
Topics
Browse all topics
Video
Podcast
Back to
Main menu
Podcast series
Quizzes
Membership
Back to
Main menu
Membership area
Back to
Membership
Member discounts
Join HistoryExtra
BBC History Mag
Academy
Back to
Membership
Roman Britain course
D-Day course
Witchcraft course
Elizabethans course
Vikings course
Regency course
Subscribe
Newsletter sign up
Download app
Join our Academy
Search
Home
Medicine and health
Medicine and health
Premium
Membership
The Black Death and social change
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Membership
The Broad Street cholera outbreak: how bad was it and how was it contained?
Membership
Nursing by numbers: how Florence Nightingale campaigned for better conditions
Advertisement MPU index
Stuart
Q&A
Why did 17th-century plague doctors wear peculiar beaked masks?
Medieval
Black Death quarantine: how did we try to contain the most deadly disease in history?
Tudor
Q&A
What was the Sweating Sickness? And how did Henry VIII ‘self-isolate’?
Membership
Jane Austen’s tips for “health and happiness”
First World War
Q&A
Why was the 1918-19 pandemic known as Spanish Flu?
Premium
Membership
Coronavirus: a historical perspective
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Advertisement MPU index
Membership
A short history of quarantine
Membership
“The very sight of her hands did almost turn my stomach”: a brief history of hand-washing
Medieval
The (not so) stinky Middle Ages: why medieval people were cleaner than we think
Premium
Membership
Medieval medicine
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
Beating the Black Death: did medieval medicine help people to survive?
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Membership
Midwifery and childbirth: a historical A–Z guide
Prev
Page
1
Page
9
You're currently on page
10
Page
11
Page
15
Next