Accounts of previous epidemics – by Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe and Katherine Porter – warn of mistakes that we risk repeating.
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Bleach to defeat COVID-19 or fire to dispel plague, history is full of quack medicine.
Isolation. Despair. Facing our demons. What does the most-translated novel tell us about living with COVID-19?
Written 60 years after the bubonic plague swept London, Defoe's account may have been a hoax, but it still rings true today.
Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe was one of the first novels (in the modern sense) written in English. Some 300 years later, the complicated castaway and his misadventures continue to shape culture.
It may only be Scotland that is heading to the polls on September 18, but it is not the only interested party in the results of the independence referendum. England would obviously play a dominant role…
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