Fighting Pandemics from Below, 1792 – 1942

Blog/Podcast

PODCAST: The Icy Gale of Death

Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt.


BLOG: Plotting in a Time of Cholera

Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of the sanitary internationalism.


PODCAST: Prophet of Reason

Charlie Ough in conversation with Peter Hill about Dr Mikha’il Mishaqa, the Mount Lebanon-born polymath and US Vice Consul in Damascus.


BLOG: A Tale of Two Towers

Gert Huskens tells the story of two water towers, one in Tangier, the other in Utrecht, that connect the histories of global entrepreneurship and sanitary internationalism.


PODCAST: Quarantine Questions

Giorgio Ennas in conversation with Şahin Yeşilyurt.


BLOG: The Foreigner in Piraeus

Anna Batzeli, postdoctoral researcher at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.


BLOG: Mogador

Ali Al Tuma visits the past and present of Essaouira, a city of timeless beauty that bears the scars of plague and cholera.