Dr Nigel Farrell, Associate Lecturer in history at Ulster University, discusses the horrifying cholera epidemics that occurred in 19th-century Belfast.

Tuberculosis in Victorian Belfast

Epidemic Belfast raises difficult and challenging questions about Northern Ireland's medical history, from the 19th century to COVID.  In each episode, experts examine themes including the health of Belfast's mill workers, asylums, Victorian anti-vaxxers, 'cures' and shock therapies for homosexuality, the thalidomide tragedy, lobotomies, prison doctors during the Troubles and the AIDS crisis.