Talk

Muck, Medicine and Mortality in Victorian Lancashire Lecture

27 February 2026
12-1pm
Included in general admission

How did Victorians cope with squalor and disease in 19th century Lancashire?

Water, sewerage, housing, hospitals, medicine – an exploration of the ways in which Victorians coped, or tried to cope, with squalor and disease in nineteenth century Lancashire by popular speaker Dr Mike Winstanley.

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