Lakeside Arts
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Health and Disease in Medieval Nottingham

Guided Walk

Saturday 03 June, 10am-12noon
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Meet at the left lion by Nottingham Council House, Old Market Square
£3 (free concessions)
Suitable for those with moderate levels of fitness/mobility.

Explore places of health, illness and pollution in the pre-modern urban landscape with Dr Chris King. What was the standard of health and medicine? Were medieval towns really as dirty and disease-ridden as popular myth would have us believe?

Image: ‘Engraved sketch of Bridlesmith Gate, from Nottingham sketches by Mrs WM Enfield; 1854. Ref: EMSC Over.X Not 3.D28 ENF’