War, revolution and pandemic 1918-19
10-Minute Talks
English - September 01, 2020 11:21 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBSociety & Culture Arts history politics philosophy economics history of art psychology sociology law humanities social sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The 'Spanish Flu' of 1918-19 remains the most devastating pandemic of modern times, possibly killing up to 100 million people world wide. The loss of life massively exceeded the numbers killed during the First World War. Yet curiously its political, military and social impact was largely unrecognised at the time and is barely considered today. In this talk, Hew Strachan discusses the challenges the flu epidemic presents for the modern historian and provides some context for our own predicament today.
The British Academy's Shape the Future programme examines the societal, economic and cultural implications of the pandemic
Speaker: Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews; Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Life Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Image: A typist wearing a flu face mask © PhotoQuest / Archive Photos / Getty Images
Transcript: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/10-minute-talks-war-revolution-and-pandemic-1918-19/