In the context of the Black Lives Matter protests, Tom interviews American Historian and expert on the 1918 Spanish Flu, Kennth C. Davis, to see how the last pandemic impacted women's suffrage - the biggest social movement at that time.

Since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the 25th May the world has watched a global anti-racist protest develop under the name of #BlackLivesMatter. In this episode, Kenneth and Tom explore whether it is the isolated context and economic consequences of our current pandemic that encouraged a reaction. Using 1918 as a starting point, what can we say about pandemics and their ability to encourage social change.

Kenneth C Davis is best known for his book 'Don't Know Much About History', which spent 35 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and sold nearly 1.5 million copies. In 2018 he wrote, 'More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War'. He is a great person to speak with on this topic.