- All Timelines
- Britain - Changing Lives
- c.1066 |Medieval Manor
- c.1180 |Medieval Minds
- c.1250 |Medieval Towns
- c.1320 |Monastic Life
- c.1348 |The Black Death
- c.1420 |Yeoman England
- c.1520 |The Reformation
- c.1588 |Shakespeare's World
- c.1612 |Pendle Witches
- c.1775 |Iron and Industry
- c.1785 |Factories and Machines
- c.1810 |Urban Slums
- c.1834 |Tolpuddle Martyrs
- c.1853 |The Vision of Titus Salt
- c.1875 |Cities Transformed
- c.1910 |A Golden Age?
- c.1984 |Death of Industry
- Britain - Rulers & Ruled
- c.1066 |Norman Conquest
- c.1170 |Church & Crown
- c.1215 |Magna Carta
- c.1280 |First Parliaments
- c.1381 |Peasants Revolt
- c.1470 |The Pastons
- c.1528 |Henry VIII & Church
- c.1649 |Civil War
- c.1658 |The Wheel of History
- c.1688 |"Glorious" Revolution
- c.1789 |Rights of Man
- c.1819 |Peterloo Massacre
- c.1842 |The Chartists
- c.1867 |Dawn of Democracy
- c.1893 |Rise of Labour
- c.1903 |Votes for Women
- c.1919 |Century of Change
- Britain - Nations & Empire
- Smallpox Through Time
- c.1045BC |Face of a Pharaoh
- c.1562 |Arsenic and Old Lace
- c.1617 |Smallpox in America
- c.1711 |Child Pox
- c.1721 |Experiment in Newgate
- c.1758 |The Speckled Monster
- c.1796 |Jenner's Breakthrough
- c.1800 |The Vaccine Triumphant
- c.1806 |Ox-faced Boys
- c.1853 |Public Health & Protest
- c.1896 |Epidemic on Camera
- c.1967 |Global Action
- c.2010 |Smallpox Today
- The American West
- Britain - Changing Lives
- This Module
- For thirty years, the world has been free of smallpox. And yet the virus survives, in laboratories in Russia and the USA. Andrew debates the ethics of keeping smallpox even in lab conditions, focusing on the tragic story of Janet Parker, the very last victim of smallpox, who was infected in a lab in the University of Birmingham in 1978.
- Credits
Smallpox Through Time
- 13.Smallpox Today
-
1978-2010
Should we keep stocks of the smallpox virus? What are the benefits? What are the risks? (3.75 mins)
-
1.Face of a Pharaoh
-
-
1045 BC
next video 1/13
Secondary Resources
- 1. A world free of smallpox
After the final cases of the disease in India... Read more
- 2. What next?
The excitement at the global success of the eradication programme... Read more
Picture Viewer
Location details
Location filming for this module proved contentious. Not surprisingly, the authorities at Birmingham University are very sensitive about the Janet Parker case. Many local people remember the events of 1978, and friends and relative of the protagonists live nearby.
But the story is important and in the public interest, and so we went ahead with the story even without the University's formal blessing. I believe we covered it with sensitivity and without sensationalism.
Our Sponsor: The Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is a global charity dedicated to achieving improvements in human and animal health.
Timelines: "Smallpox through Time" was entirely funded with through a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Award. We are very grateful for the Trust's support in the making of this resource.
