Talk | The Dreadful Diseases of Victorian Worcester, 1890-1900

Saturday 1 March 2025, 4 – 5pm | The Commandery

Despite being a city of wealth, during the Victorian period, many inhabitants of Worcester shared cramped, overcrowded homes, with poor access to clean water leading to the spread of several deadly diseases.

In this talk hosted in The Commandery’s beautiful medieval Great Hall, author and medical historian Kevin Goodman will explore what these diseases were and the treatment and medical care available to the people of Worcester at the time.

This talk celebrates the opening of The Commandery’s new exhibition Wyldgate Lane – A Walk Through Victorian Worcester.

There will be the opportunity to purchase Kevin Goodman’s books at the talk.

Kevin Goodman is an author and medical historian who has appeared in documentaries for the Smithsonian Channel (Mystic Britain), Channel 5 (The Great Plague and The Black Death) and History Hit, and specialises in the history of health and disease in the West Midlands.