Dr Rhianne Morgan, Queens University Belfast, discusses health, leisure and the Templemore Public Baths in East Belfast.

Belfast, c.1900. ‘The Unhealthiest City in the Kingdom’?

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.