

Addressing Health
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@PostalHealth
Health and working lives in the nineteenth century with a focus on the Post Office. Funded by @WellcomeTrust.













NEXT WEEK! Thursday 13 October, 5.30pm, Zoom 'Revealing the Past' Melissa McGreechan (@TfL archives) on their transcription project with @u3a_UK. In the @ihr_history Transport & Mobility History series, co-convened by our Mike Esbester. Booking here: history.ac.uk/events/reveali…

Mapping Famine Roads explores some of the most desolate, beautiful places in Ireland. The creation of Famine Roads as supposed relief projects at the height of the famine remains one of the most contentious legacies on the island. To learn more ➡️ youtu.be/6ypdzMDFF_4






Beckie Rutherford won our Postgraduate Exchange Prize for the blog “We moved together, we breathed together’: disabled women on stage in 1980s Britain”: socialhistory.org.uk/2022/07/07/202…



UK cases reach 309,000 cases per day affecting currently over 1 in 20 people as this fifth wave of omicron BA5 shows no signs of slowing and hospitals filling up steadily. Still no signs of advice for the public - as U.K. supposedly the first to beat Covid @Join_ZOE





In our brand new episode, @laura_c_newman (KCL) discusses using postal data to understand health in Northern Irish history. Also, how did postmen such as William Orr deliver the post despite being visually impaired? tinyurl.com/4ndncecr