Common Cold Unit Salisbury Healthcare History

Oral history project: Common Cold Unit

colour photograph of a group of staff in 2 rows in front of blue building

Behind the trials: Everyday work of the Common Cold Unit

Cider in the snow

A colour photograph of 2 long tables laid up for lunch with bottles

There was no such thing as a typical day

A career in virus research

Letters from Isolation: A Mother’s Life Inside the Common Cold Unit, 1959

The Last Cold: A Volunteer’s Diary from 1989

black and white photograph of group of people looking at science experiment

A cheap holiday and a curious experiment

1 person in shorts and scientist in white gown and mask walk on grass next to hut

Thirty Feet Apart

Front cover of book

Coughs and Sneezes

Photograph of a group of cows

What does it mean?

Black and white photograph showing a card game

Clinical trials at The Common Cold Unit