Mark Doherty, tour guide and local historian, discusses the role of Clifton House poor house in protecting the health of its residents and securing its graveyard.

The Templemore Public Baths in East 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.