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The plight of women who had to give birth alone during the pandemic is a good starting point to discuss a better childbirth experience for all women.
Accounts of previous epidemics – by Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe and Katherine Porter – warn of mistakes that we risk repeating.
To stave off illness and melancholy, moderate drinking was advised by doctors.
As the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic approaches, it might be time to consider how our modern age wants to remember this plague.
Although memorials to past pandemics are not as prolific as war memorials, they do exist. A scholar of visual culture provides a brief history of monuments around the world.
Power, plague and Christianity were closely intertwined in 17th-century New England.
Medieval Japanese poets and philosophers sought different ways of dealing with disasters and tragedies.
As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it’s not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it’s usually here to stay.
The things we find hard to balance during COVID-19 – individual freedoms versus the group, accountability versus blame, science versus personal beliefs – are centuries old and deeply human.
Societies and cultures that seem ossified and entrenched can be completely upended by pandemics, which create openings for conquest, innovation and social change.
The 17th-century plague of Italy has lessons for today: Back then, too, people broke public health laws, but there were clergymen who intervened.
We’re supposed to suppress feelings of envy. But what if the kind spurred by school shutdowns, frontline work and cramped apartments are worth exploring – and acting upon?
Masks have a chequered history in western fashion. Some silenced women in the name of beauty, others provoked sexual desire.
Written between 1348 and 1353, the Decameron is a prescription for psychological survival, a way of mentally distancing from today’s death counts and grim economic forecasts.
The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first time people have been required to wear face masks for protection. Mask-wearing has a long history, and reflects society’s sense of shared responsibility.
The idea of organized satanic witchcraft was invented in 15th-century Europe by church and state authorities, who at first had a hard time convincing regular folks it was real.
Australia’s island identity and attitude to border security was forged from handling pandemics since the time of federation. Here’s what we’ve learned along the way.
In medieval times natural phenomena, such as comets and eclipses, were regarded as portents of natural disasters, including plagues.
People have lived with infectious disease throughout the millennia, with culture and biology influencing each other. Archaeologists decode the stories told by bones and what accompanies them.
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Researcher in Medical Anthropology, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor in Medieval History, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of History, University of Stirling
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Associate Professor of Health History, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Chair in the History of Finance and Research Dean, Prosperity and Resilience, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Lecturer in English, Loughborough University
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Professor of English and National Teaching Fellow, Birmingham City University
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Professor of History, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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(Formerly) Senior Research Specialist, Johns Hopkins University
