Online event: virtual tour: Pathology, Plague & Pestilence in Old London Town!

Let's explore Old London Town!

Today I am going to take you on a virtual trail - then like now there was disease, dysentery and perhaps even dementia - they just labelled those afflicted as 'lunatics'... London’s oldest quarter, the City of London, was once completely walled and, as it is today (well before lockdown) teeming with life. Across the river, the supply hub of Southwark was the overspill for the City’s vice. Disease was as constant a threat as fire and often more terrifying. Monks and nuns ran ‘hospitals’ – from the Latin hospitium, or charitable lodging – and some of London’s most respected modern hospitals, including St Thomas’s and St Bartholomew’s, trace their roots back to these early lodgings. Following London’s struggle against illness and disease, this tour highlights the journey to improve public health and the treatment of the sick, with its own cast of quacks, visionaries, hypochondriacs and heroes.

I shall be narrating the tour with the aid of a slide show - you just don't have to do the leg work and can be anywhere in the whole wide world🌎
We will virtually visit: Royal Colleges - Livery Company Halls - Old Operating Theatres - Plague Pits + more!

If you have the stomach for it 😉 Why not have a virtual drink together, glass of wine or beer - Coffee 'n' Cake ;) 🍷 🍺🍰☕ Afterwards, we'll have our usual social chat!

To attend in the first instance RSVP. You do not need a Zoom account. But to stop Zoom bombers (persons hijacking the event - doing weird things). All you have to do is click on the location link and enter the meeting password: 834017 - Please log in around 5 minutes before it starts.

We have a form of etiquette, for example when you first enter the 'meeting room' you will be muted, I will unmute you as we start. However, when you are not speaking it is recommended that you mute yourself - this is so that others do not get a lot of background noise.

Hope to see lots of you there :)