The “Spanish Flu” spread during World War I, right at the end of our time period. However, this is a perfect story for our podcast because it shows how violently 19th century civilization clashed with our industrial age.

Benjamin Kitchens, host of the History Voyager podcast, joins the show to explain how Victorian-era medicine and science helped spread a deadly disease. The Spanish Flu was a turning point for researchers and doctors, who helped change sanitation and hospitalization strategies. So in a way, this pandemic can be seen as the END of 1800s medicine and the BEGINNING of Modern epidemiology.

Living through the Covid-19 pandemic, you may have heard parallels to the supposed 1918 Influenza. In this episode Kitchens is going to explain what we THINK the Spanish Flu was and how it wracked the world. Crisis gives us a window into politics, economics and culture from the past. Let’s step through and learn about a deadly end to the 1800s…

Hosted and produced by Joseph Hawthorne
Edited by Jordan Hawthorne (surprisingly unrelated)

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