TGM Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 (edited) Just reading about the Paris 'flu epidemic and thought of another one one hundred years ago this year. This is Laura Spinney's perspective published as an article on the Smithsonian: How the 1918 Flu Pandemic Revolutionized Public Health / Laura Spinney (Paris), 27/0/2017 Snippet See also Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World/Laura Spinney. Spinney's Blog. https://www.amazon.com/Pale-Rider-Spanish-Changed-World-ebook/dp/B01N22ZOHC Reviews: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/how-many-of-us-has-a-forebear-who-died-of-spanish-flu/ http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6357/1245 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pale-rider-the-spanish-flu-of-1918-and-how-it-changed-the-world-by-laura-spinney-snd96x8hn https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21722613-new-book-looks-global-impact-spanish-flu-deadliest-disease-history https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/04/pale-rider-laura-spinney-spanish-flu-review-absorbing-study https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/22/pale-rider-laura-spinney-review http://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2017/09/18/pale-rider/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/review-a-world-of-sickness-1512938536 Edited 7 January , 2018 by TGM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4thGordons Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 I notice you don't list John M. Barry's book there. I thought it was an excellent review of the US situation and wiht particular attention to the deplorable state of public medicine in the US in the late 19th early 20th Century. (I am midway through Spinney's book at the moment) Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 7 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 7 January , 2018 1 minute ago, 4thGordons said: I notice you don't list John M. Barry's book there. I thought it was an excellent review of the US situation and wiht particular attention to the deplorable state of public medicine in the US in the late 19th early 20th Century. (I am midway through Spinney's book at the moment) Chris Thanks... as mentioned above I was just thinking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxi Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 TGM Thank you for this post and as a result I will be taking a keener interest in this subject and will look into buying John M Barry's book. Maxi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 9 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 9 January , 2018 Good to hear, Maxi. There is a decade between the appearance of the two books so I would be interested to hear 4thGordons' views on both. For those interested in Barry's book: Amazon.co.uk link / Internet Archive Recentish Reviews: http://themilitaryreviewer.blogspot.co.uk/ https://wamu.org/story/17/12/20/a-key-lesson-from-the-1918-flu-pandemic-tell-the-truth-one-historian-says/ http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200408053510624#t=article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC450178/ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01947648.2015.1262197 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3401416?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents http://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2017/09/18/pale-rider/ (cites both books) http://www.historynet.com/interview-john-m-barry-scholar-writer.htm Some citations Worth visiting - Geere's Pandemics: a reading list page : https://howwegettonext.com/pandemics-a-reading-list-2d8bf7434d9f BTW - conference of interest: Going Viral: Impact and Implications of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (USA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 14 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 14 January , 2018 (edited) Just thought I would add this from Dutch scientists/practitioners. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181817/. Edited 14 January , 2018 by TGM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 20 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2018 Just noticed a forthcoming TNA talk on Spanish Flu: the global pandemic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 16 February , 2018 Author Share Posted 16 February , 2018 Just spotted a HistoryExtra podcast of an interview with Catharine Arnold on her new book Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 28 May , 2018 Author Share Posted 28 May , 2018 (edited) Worth listening to today's Start the Week: Survival and Destruction (BBC Radio 4) with Jonathan D Quick. (also includes a contribution by A Beevor about his book on Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944) Edited 28 May , 2018 by TGM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 22 June , 2018 Author Share Posted 22 June , 2018 (edited) Spotted in latest issue of The Lancet Pandemic Influenza: 100 years Quote we have highlighted some of our landmark papers in a historical timeline below, plus we have also made our most highly cited articles FREE to access until Aug 31, 2018. Also in same issue: Spanish influenza redux: revisiting the mother of all pandemics DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31360-6 Edited 22 June , 2018 by TGM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry_Reeves Posted 23 June , 2018 Share Posted 23 June , 2018 I would also suggest taking a look at the Chief Medical Officers reports in your local archives to see what happened in your particular area. These can be quite illuminating not only as to numbers but also how it spread within an area. TR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 23 June , 2018 Share Posted 23 June , 2018 43 minutes ago, Terry_Reeves said: I would also suggest taking a look at the Chief Medical Officers reports in your local archives to see what happened in your particular area. These can be quite illuminating not only as to numbers but also how it spread within an area. TR And for many areas of the UK, the local Medical Officer of Health reports are available for nowt having been digitised by the Wellcome Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 24 June , 2018 Author Share Posted 24 June , 2018 Good points Terry_Reeves. Overview and how to search: http://wellcomelibrary.org/moh/about-the-reports/about-the-medical-officer-of-health-reports/ Though I note some reports are missing for key years in several areas I have checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 9 September , 2018 Author Share Posted 9 September , 2018 (edited) Useful article in The Observer today: Snippet: Edited 9 September , 2018 by TGM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loader Posted 10 September , 2018 Share Posted 10 September , 2018 A few yrs ago I saw a documentary about that awful pandemic. It scared the hell out of me! My grandmother said all of her family survived because they were so far out in the countryside they had not contact with others & her parents made sure they did not. Whatever the truth they were extremely lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 11 September , 2018 Author Share Posted 11 September , 2018 Yes, a sobering thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 30 September , 2018 Author Share Posted 30 September , 2018 Podcast of interest: Flu Do You Think You Are? (from the The Naked Scientists) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 30 September , 2018 Author Share Posted 30 September , 2018 Also recently broadcast: The Flu that killed 50 million (BBC Two Scotland) Quote It is 1918 and the end of WWI. Millions have died, and the world is exhausted by war. But soon a new horror is sweeping the world, a terrifying virus that will kill more than fifty million people - the Spanishflu. Using dramatic reconstruction and eyewitness testimony from doctors, soldiers, civilians and politicians, this one-off special brings to life the onslaught of the disease, the horrors of those who lived through it and the efforts of the pioneering scientists desperately looking for the cure. Narrated by Christopher Eccleston, the film also asks whether, a century later, the lessons learnt in 1918 might help us fight a future global flu pandemic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 16 November , 2018 Author Share Posted 16 November , 2018 Nicely illustrated page by CWGC on Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fight of the First World War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 30 November , 2018 Author Share Posted 30 November , 2018 New video: Spanish Flu: A Warning from History (Cambridge University, 30 Nov 2018) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 30 November , 2018 Share Posted 30 November , 2018 (edited) Elizabeth my grandmother, died of Spanish Flu in 1919 in Co. Cavan, Ireland. The RIC referring to Cavan, stated 'The disease carried of a great many and affected nearly every household'. Mike. Edited 30 November , 2018 by MikeyH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 6 August , 2020 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2020 I came across this today: The Mask Slackers of 1918 As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor Anderson Posted 20 December , 2020 Share Posted 20 December , 2020 (edited) Interesting item from the 18th Division HQ War Diary - October 1918 (from TNA): Edited 20 December , 2020 by Ivor Anderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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