Press and publications

Articles

2020

• Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy (Wellcome Collection)

2015

• The Legacy of Dr. Jenner (ALMA Culture&Medicine, with Professor Gareth Williams and Dr Robert C. Spencer)

Events

2022

• ‘Nothing new under the sun’: tackling the vaccination myths that just won’t go away (Medicine, Myth and Memory – Trusted Voices in the Pandemic, online)

2021

• Cowpox champions: embracing vaccination in England, 1798 – 1830 (Institute of Historical Research Life-Cycles seminar, online)
• Edward Jenner: A Global Legacy (Gloucester History Festival, Gloucester)
• The Early History of Vaccination: A Guided Tour of Dr. Jenner’s House (Science Gallery Bengaluru, online)
• Dr Jenner, Smallpox & Vaccines: In Conversation with Owen Gower (The Old Operating Theatre, online)
• Quarantines, Vaccines and Museums (Dr Jenner’s House/Eyam Museum, online)

2020

• “If I had a pound for every time I heard the name Edward Jenner…” (Museums Showoff, online)

2018

• Tales of Old Berkeley (Dr Jenner’s House, Berkeley)
• Clash or collaboration? Letting game designers into the museum (Museums+Tech, London)
• They came from Gloucestershire! (Dr Jenner’s House, Berkeley)

Podcasts

2022

• Owen Gower & Briony Hudson (Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe)

2021

• Interview with Owen Gower, Manager of Edward Jenner’s House (Vaccine: The Human Story)
• He extracted some fluid from that blister (Museums n’That)
• Vaxx and the Facts: The House That Jenner Built (Going Viral)

2020

• The Vaccine (Sick to Death: A History of Medicine in 10 Objects)

2017

• Cholera, smallpox & immunology (Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places)

Press

2022

• Smallpox eradication claim denies vaccine evidence (AAP FactCheck)

2021

• The father of vaccination (Cotswold Life)
• Leicester was once the hub of anti-vaccination movement that echoes the pandemic of today (Leicester Mercury)
• Edward Jenner Pioneered Vaccination. Will His Museum Survive a Pandemic? (The New York Times)
• The Florence Nightingale Museum has been abandoned (The Spectator)

2020

• Lockdown has put museums and galleries on the brink of collapse (Wired)

2019

• Smallpox and the photos anti-vaxxers don’t want you to see (News.com.au)

Radio

2022

• Dr Jenner’s House: where vaccines were born (ABC Radio National)

2020

• The Long View of the Anti-Vaccination Movement (BBC Radio 4)

Social media

2020

• Vaccines | Dr Edward Jenner (Department of Health and Social Care)