Events: detail
Life and Death by Water
- Hosted by:
- Wellcome Collection
- Speaker:
-
Mark Pilkington, Strange Attractor Press
- Starts:
- October 11, 2008 at 12:00 pm
- Ends:
- October 11, 2008 at 02:00 pm
- Location:
- Mansion House Tube Station, London Underground Ltd., 38 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6JD United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
For the inhabitants of medieval London, crammed into an area defined by the city walls of Roman Londinium and without sewers or fresh water, staying healthy was big business. Follow the ebb and flow of the Thames – London’s lifeline, but also the bringer of filth and disease – and with it the ebb and flow of sickness and cure. Discover the sights, sounds and stomach-churning smells of the medieval riverside, from the butchery of surgeons to the learned hopelessness of physicians and the fiery end of the medieval city.
With Mark Pilkington, Strange Attractor Press
This is an adapted version of a walk published in ‘Medical London: City of Disease, City of Cures’.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Please note that this walk starts at Mansion House Tube station and ends at Monument Tube station.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Wellcome Collection Events
- Phone:
- 020 7611 2222
- Email:
- events [ at ] wellcomecollection.org
- Website:
- Life and Death by Water
