Fun, Violent, Compliant? The Romanian Red Cross and Health Education for Children in the 1960s

Brochure disseminated by the Romanian Red Cross in 1963. Research on epidemics and technologies of communication is still scarce in Romania. The Romanian team focus is on documenting and understanding the socialist policies and practices of public health communications, which were applied by the Romanian authoritarian regimes after the second world war in order toContinueContinue reading “Fun, Violent, Compliant? The Romanian Red Cross and Health Education for Children in the 1960s”

New Colds for Old

‘Old Colds for New’, Punch, 18th January, 1890, p. 33. The Media and Epidemics project seeks to document, from historical and contemporary as well as trans-disciplinary and trans-regional perspectives, the role of media and technologies of communication in the making and management of epidemic outbreaks. The investigation of the British team focuses upon the transmission ofContinueContinue reading “New Colds for Old”