Fatalism and an absence of public grief: how British society dealt with the 1918 flu

Bayly, Martin ORCID: 0000-0002-5772-9770 (2020) Fatalism and an absence of public grief: how British society dealt with the 1918 flu. British Politics and Policy at LSE (28 Oct 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Although the ‘Spanish Flu’ killed almost a quarter of million Britons – many young – it went uncommemorated. Martin Bayly explains how British society attempted to deal with the pandemic.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	International Relations
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Date Deposited:	12 Nov 2020 15:09
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 12:58
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107338

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