Three interdisciplinary research projects on historical epidemics, diseases and other catastrophes met at the ESHS/HSS Annual Meeting in Edinburgh last week (13-16 July, 2026). Exeter’s ‘Pustules’ joined with Copenhagen’s From Catastrophe to Culture: Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia, and Vienna’s  Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South Asia for a conference panel ‘Pestilence and the Weather: The Environmental Framing of […]

We are delighted that Pustules, Palaeogenetics and Pandemics from Galen to Rhazes: How to do the Early History of Smallpox and Measles has been awarded a £2.36 million Wellcome Discovery Award, and will run from 2026 – 2030. University of Exeter’s news article ‘Exeter scholars secure significant research funding to investigate the early history of […]