Life-saving vaccines have revolutionised the promotion of public health. Over the last 50 years, more than 150 million deaths have been averted by vaccines worldwide – a life saved every 10 seconds of every minute of every day. Many millions more have been protected from the life-long effects of potentially crippling diseases and their sequelae. This interdisciplinary atlas examines the geographical and demographic impact of vaccines and vaccination on the population of Britain since 1901. Richly detailed and beautifully illustrated, it is an indispensable reference work for those in public health, epidemiology, demography, economic history, geography, the history of medicine and cognate fields. With almost 200 full-colour maps, graphs and photographs, it also forms a highly accessible and engaging aid for the instruction of undergraduate and postgraduate students.

‘Meticulous, detailed, careful, thorough and definitive, the Atlas of Vaccination Britain will be the reference work on the history of vaccination on these Isles into perpetuity. Beautifully illustrated, carefully designed, it tells the story for vaccine introduction, effect, dissent, how that dissent was overcome and what happens when it rises again. From smallpox to monkeypox, influenza to Covid-19, from the 1790s to the 2020s and beyond - Smallman-Raynor, Jewitt, Munro and Cliff have produced a masterpiece. In an age of easy availability of many small pieces of often unreliable information, the thoughtful curating of so much that is useful and in context is both refreshing and amazing to see.’

Danny Dorling - 1971 Professor of Geography, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford