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Day: 18 May 2020

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The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it “fanned the flames of revolt”

May 18, 2020 Book review by Hannah Sell Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary

Laura Spinney’s book, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (published by Cape), on the 1918 flu pandemic, was first published in 2017. Now in the midst of a […]

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