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An exciting output announcement from the Chanse - Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe Media and Epidemics project. Melissa Dickson and Emily Vincent (the project’s UK team) are co-writing a book (provisionally entitled) ‘A British Literary Contagion: ‘Russian Flu’ and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle’ for the Manchester University Press Society for the Social History of Medicine series🦠

The book examines the cultural afterlives of the so-called “Russian Flu” of the 1890s across British and Anglo-Irish literature, popular media, and medical discourse 📚 📰 🩺

By situating literary texts alongside periodical culture, medical journalism, and spiritualist media, the book makes a substantial contribution to current work on media cultures and nineteenth-century medicine, while speaking directly to contemporary debates in the

As the UK’s season intensifies, it is interesting to see it being personified as ‘unrelenting’, or ecologically as a ‘wave’. Our researchers examine how figurative language & texts have shaped media responses to the flu since the 19th century🤧 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yq9wr3pnro...

Flu in four charts - how this year's winter outbreak is different NHS England says it's facing a "worst-case scenario" after flu hospital cases jump 55% in a week.