By Dora Vargha “We know a good deal about beginnings: those first signal cases of pneumonia in Guangdong, influenza in Veracruz, and hemorrhagic fever in…
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By Neville Morley The first detailed, quasi-scientific account of epidemic disease was offered by the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, describing an outbreak of ‘plague’ (the…
By Fabrizio Nevola and collaborators PUblic REnaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present is a project funded by the…
By Angela Cassidy There are many parallels between the UK’s response to the arrival of COVID-19 in recent months and its much longer policy history…
By Angela Cassidy As humanity meets, identifies and struggles to understand the SARS-CoV-2 virus, scientific and societal understandings of the disease it causes (COVID-19) are…
By Martin Moore Historians are as much a product of their particular time and place as the subjects we study. Our interpretations of the past…