Can history help us analyse past medical crises and shape public health policy? What can history collections reveal about these histories? This session will explore the history of vaccinations and health crises and how understanding this can help to navigate and deal with modern medical crises. We will explore how library, archive and museum collections capture and document the effects and public experiences of health policy.
The session will be chaired by Professor Philip Murphy, Director of History and Policy, at the Institute of Historical Research. It will consist of a series of lightning talks followed by a discussion, highlighting how the work of historians and collections professionals contributes to our understanding of these histories.
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This session is part of the History Day 2022 | Human Discovery: Experiencing Science
A day of online interactive events for students, researchers & history enthusiasts to explore library, museum, archive and history collections across the UK & beyond.
Find out more at the History Collections website. More information about the contributions from other organisations are listed on the programme.
History Day is a free annual one-day event that is created collaboratively between the Institute of Historical Research and Senate House Library.
This event is part of the Being Human festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 10–19 November 2022. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.
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