Bad Bugs Book Club
| Dates: | 5 March 2020 |
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| Times: | 18:30 - 20:00 |
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| What is it: | Evening event |
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| Organiser: | Manchester Museum |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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Bad Bugs Book Club
Thursday 5 March
6.30-8pm
The Bad Bug Book Club is popping up at Manchester Museum, discussing mosquitos and yellow fever.
The aim of the Bad Bugs Book Club is to get people interested in science, specifically microbiology, by reading books (novels) in which infectious disease forms some part of the story.
So to link with the Beauty and the Beast exhibition, we’re delighted to be hosting the March book club on the theme of yellow fever.
The main book is Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. This is a book for young adults, so will be an easy read. If you want to be more challenged, we will also be discussing Arthur Mervyn: or memories of the year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown (written in 1799). Both books describe the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. (For interesting and accessible background information on the same outbreak, look at An American Plague: the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy - also a young adult publication. An American Plague: the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history by Molly Caldwell Crosby, is a more general non-fiction output).
The Bad Bugs book club will meet at 6.30pm and there is a chance to visit the Beauty and the Beast exhibition beforehand.
For further information, or if you have any queries, please contact Joanna Verran: J.Verran@mmu.ac.uk
Everyone is welcome and there’s no need to book.
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