Description

This episode on Covid-19 pandemic and the plague features Rachel Clamp, who is a PhD student at Durham University

• Rachel's research project is called: Keeping the Diseased: Plague Nursing, Policy and the Poor Law in Early Modern England and Scotland c.1570-1666

• She is the author of a The Conversation post titled ‘Coronavirus and the Black Death: spread of misinformation and xenophobia shows we haven’t learned from our past’

Information about the book ‘Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague’ by Keith Wrightson is available here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300174472/ralph-tailors-summer

Information about the book ‘1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire’ by Rebecca Rideal is available here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28696607-1666

The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon is a great resource for anyone interested in Oliver Cromwell, and the broader 17th Century. The website of the museum is here: https://www.cromwellmuseum.org/  

The Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast is an output of the Covid-19 and Democracy Project, which is based within the Department of Politics, International Relations and Human Rights of Kingston University, London.

The podcast aims to capture in real-time the fervent intellectual debate at the intersections between the Covid-19 pandemic and democratic politics and policy.

Principle Investigator and podcast Presenter and Producer: Pete Finn (p.finn@kingston.ac.uk)

Follow: @C19andDemoProj

Original music by Sovereign Heights