In this episode, Dr Ida Milne shares what she's discovered about life & death during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 and the parallels between then and now. She is a social historian who studies disease and has interviewed centenarian survivors in addition to extensively researching the events of over 100 years ago.
Her book 'Stacking the Coffins : Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918-19' is published by Manchester University Press.
