Spanish Flu 1918: The Forgotten Pandemic
Spanish Flu 1918: The Forgotten Pandemic The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was deadly influenza pandemic. Lasting from January 1918 ...
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Coronavirus, Actuarial Standards, Data Quality, and Daniel Defoe
Meep discusses the difficulty in finding usable data in doing analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic. meep's substack: https://marypatcampbell.substack.com/ ...
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Camus (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Algerian-French writer and Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus. Shortly after the new year of 1960, a powerful sports ...
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The White Plague: A Social History of Tuberculosis - Professor Sir Richard J. Evans
Of all diseases tuberculosis is the most widely represented in literature, opera and drama. The disease has been present in humans since prehistory and hence ...
Gresham College
Plagues and Peoples, by William McNeill
The history of disease demonstrates both the accidental nature of history and the triumph of human reason that can enable us to gain some control over our fate; ...
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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University of Essex
Curing Tuberculosis - The Hero Koch - Extra History - #1
Every child needs a health checkup at least once a year. If you live in Minnesota, learn more at GetCTC.com. If you don't, check here: ...
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3. Plague (I): Pestilence as Disease
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (HIST 234) The bubonic plague is the measure by which succeeding epidemics have long been measured.
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Hisham Matar in Conversation with Claire Messud
Hisham Matar's new book is A Month in Siena. His critically acclaimed memoir, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, won the Pulitzer Prize for ...
Harvard University
Japanese Classics in a Time of Contagion
National Institute of Japanese Literature：https://www.nijl.ac.jp/en/ NIJL-NW Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network: ...
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England's Old Abandoned Railway | Full Episode | TRACKS
Subscribe to see more full documentaries every week: https://bit.ly/2lneXNy Tony uncovers a prehistoric shark tooth, shines a light in an abandoned railway ...
TRACKS
The Cockney Romantics: John Keats and his Friends
The younger generation of English Romantics were Londoners through and through. They were known as the 'Cockney School of Poetry'. A lecture by Sir ...
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The Canadians: Sir Sandford Fleming
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Six Political Philosophies in Search of a Virus | LSE Online Event
The COVID-19 crisis has brought a number of interesting questions in political philosophy to the fore. What are the limits and ethical role of the state? What is the ...
LSE
The Crimes of the Papin Sisters (Historic Crime Documentary) | Timeline
In a case that shocked the nation maids Christine and Lea Papin admit to the murder of the mother and daughter of their master. Want to watch more full-length ...
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The Coverup of the Century | New documentary on how the CCP covered up the coronavirus outbreak |NTD
Zooming In's one-hour documentary movie follows investigative reporter Simone Gao's inquiry into critical questions about the pandemic: What did the Chinese ...
NTD
Visiting The Secret Country Retreat of Novelist D.H. Lawrence | Ancient Tracks | Timeline
This week, Tony discovers an ancient shark tooth, and takes us on a mountain hike to the secret country retreat of novelist and poet D.H Lawrence. Content ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
'The Great Unwashed' - Professor Sir Richard Evans
Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was caused by a bacterium hosted by the human body louse, and has thus always been associated with dirty ...
Gresham College
AHA 2020 Presidential Address by John R. McNeill
Former AHA President John R. McNeill, Georgetown University, gives his presidential address, "Peak Document and the Future of Historical Research," on ...
historiansorg
'This ain't the shop for justice': Crime in Dickens's London - Dr Tony Williams
From his childhood acquaintance with London, when he feared he might become 'a little robber or a little vagabond', Charles Dickens was fascinated by crime.
Gresham College
Dr. Shashi Tharoor on 'The Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Bill, 2020'
Follow Dr. Shashi Tharoor at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShashiTharoor/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor Instagram: ...
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Marina Warner: Learning My Lesson
Marina Warner shows how higher education in the UK has been betrayed, in her 2015 Winter Lecture for the London Review of Books. Read more Marina ...
London Review of Books (LRB)
Marilyn McEntyre lectures about the importance of stories about plagues, epidemics and pandemics.
McEntyre, a former Westmont English professor and current professor of medical humanities at UC Berkeley, speaks about stories of plagues, epidemics and ...
Westmont College
The Virus and the China Threat
About the discussion: Dr. John Lenczowski will discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has raised America's consciousness of the reality of communist rule in ...
The Institute of World Politics
Sonia Shah: "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond" | Talks at Google
Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of ...
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The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us
Thursday, July 7 McCloskey Speaker Series The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us Featuring Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow of Urban Futures at ...
The Aspen Institute
Duke Center for Firearms Law | Guns in Emergencies
Center for Firearms Law leadership discuss the Second Amendment implications of state and local orders that require businesses, including gun stores, to shut ...
Duke University School of Law
Wade Davis | [Episodio 13]
El primer episodio con público en el GIMNASIO MODERNO, un invitado inigualable y una conversación para no perderse HOY en #ElPodcast con Alejandro ...
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Deadliest Plague of the 20th Century: Flu of 1918
Historical documentary about 1918 Swine Flu or Spanish Flu and the role of World War I in spreading the disease among troops making it into a worldwide ...
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"How COVID-19 Compares Historically to Other Pandemics"
Washington Foreign Press Center Briefing on "How COVID-19 Compares Historically to Other Pandemics" on April 16, 2020.
U.S. Department of State
Exhibition Opening Conversation | Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin
Following an introduction by Tim Barringer, the exhibition curators, catalogue contributors, and Courtney Skipton Long discuss John Ruskin and why he matters ...
YaleBritishArt
Plagues, Epidemics, Peculiar Beliefs and Practices through Time: Delving into Primary Sources
Join ProQuest for this time machine webinar to explore the history of pandemics, behaviors around disease and how they relate to beliefs and myth creation.
ProQuest Video
Writing And Working Together As A Creative Couple With Jeff Adams And Will Knauss
Is it possible to write together if you are partners in life as well as business? How can a community come together in the wake of difficulties? Plus, how ...
The Creative Penn
COVID-19 Insights from an Epidemics-Responder
International epidemics expert Daniel Lucey, MD, MPH, D'77, MED'81 discusses what's known about the COVID-19 pandemic, lessons learned from previous ...
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
The Industrial Revolution and Otto von Bismarck | Ralph Raico
Ralph Raico (1936-2016) was a specialist in European classical liberalism and Austrian Economics. He learned economics under Ludwig von Mises and was ...
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Changing PLAGUE Ecologies in the Ottoman Empire: Rethinking the Second Pandemic (ca. 1340s-1840s)
Presented by Nükhet Varlık, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University - Newark at the Second Department of History Lecture in Ottoman and Turkish ...
Department of History at Ohio State
Professor Steven Pinker Public Lecture
Professor Steven Pinker has been awarded the prestigious Albert Wolters Distinguished Fellowship at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language ...
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Niall Ferguson and Maya Jasanoff: Lessons from History
In a riveting conversation, world-renowned academics Niall Ferguson and Maya Jasanoff delve into the history of pandemics and share their perspectives on ...
Jaipur Lit Fest
Missing Microbes with Dr Martin Blaser
Why are obesity, juvenile diabetes and asthma increasing? Is it something in the environment or in our modern lifestyle? Dr. Martin Blaser thinks that it may be ...
American Society for Microbiology
True or false: fiction and (dis)information in the early modern world and today
Nowadays, the amount of information we receive can feel overwhelming, but how can we be sure that news stories are true? Goretti Gonzalez, Adjunct Professor ...
IE University
The 5:30 A.M. Warrior Call: Obesity Is a Major Risk Factor for COVID-19 (4/10/2020)
Joe De Sena's morning zoom call talks about why being overweight might make you more vulnerable to coronavirus. Follow us on social media: ...
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Celebrity Family Trees - Findmypast Fridays 27 March 2020 | Findmypast
Have you ever googled the family history of a famous person or celebrity? We have! We love researching the family tree of a well known figure. Perhaps a ...
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