The price of water and death

About the danger of arsenic water and the cost of a funeral

Welcome to two short lectures based on the University Library's newly published anthology on everyday print: The proximity of the present, the contemporaneity of the past.

We get a glimpse into what early 20th century printing tells us about how chemicals made drinking water healthy, and what a funeral could cost if you drank too much.

Speakers

• Ulf Ellervik, professor of chemistry, Lund University
• Lynn Åkesson, professor emerita of ethnology, Lund University