Murderous Contagion by Mary Dobson £20 donation vintage ‘Eyam Deer & Trees’

vintage ‘Eyam Deer & Trees’ print has been designed especially for Eyam Museum by Kate Thornton

'Sympathetic and sharp-eyed

An acclaimed

But when the unexplained deaths of her neighbours force the government to quarantine the village

Will we attune our ears and listen

Murderous Contagion by Mary Dobson £20 donation vintage ‘Eyam Deer & Trees’Disease is the true 'serial killer' of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined. Murderous contagion tells the story of the devastating impact of diseases on humankind from the Black Death of the 14th century to the Spanish flu of 1918 19 and the AIDS epidemic of the modern