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McGovern Lecture 2009: The Great Dread: Pandemic Influenza at the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle

05 November 2009, 6pm

Mark Honigsbaum discusses the Russian flu pandemic of the early 1890s and explores the dynamics of pandemics, both real and imagined, in popular culture

Speaker: Mark Honigsbaum, journalist and author of Living With Enza: the Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918

Free

01865 274 770

Organiser: Green Templeton College
Venue: The E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College, Woodstock Road, Oxford Ox2.
Website: http://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk
Email: april.robson@gtc.ox.ac.uk

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