Addressing Health: Morbidity, Mortality and Occupational Health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office is a three-year project exploring the timing and geography of ill health, and the responses of the Post Office and the workforce. By tracing workers through from retirement until they died, the project also explores the links between ill health and mortality.
The Post Office was a major British employer and understanding the shifts in the pattern of morbidity and mortality of its employees will transform the understanding of health during this important period of epidemiological change.
The project is funded by a Wellcome Collaborative Award in Humanities and Social Science and is a collaboration between King’s College London, Kingston University, University of Derby and University College London, in partnership with The Postal Museum.
Latest blog posts
- Getting Hands on with Occupational Health
On 9th of April our project launched an exhibition at the Museum of Communication Burntisland… Read More - James Joseph Cardin (1839-1917) : the epitome of the respectable Victorian civil servant
Colonel J. J. Cardin, C. B. Source: St Martin’s-Le-Grand, XI (1901), facing page 14. ©… Read More - Blindness in the Post OfficeWhen we think of blindness in the Post Office, one example typically comes to mind:… Read More