Dr Ian Miller, Lecturer at Ulster University, explores why an anti-smallpox vaccination movement emerged in Victorian Belfast.

Clifton House, Disease and Graverobbers in 19th-century 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.