We hear from two historians, Mary Sheehan and Liz Crash, talking on the experience of the Influenza pandemic that peaked in 1919 through the lens of today's pandemic.

They cover a broad area, with Mary touching on experiences of nurses in Melbourne including Valda Kelly, community support, comparisons to today; and Liz exploring history repeating, technological changes, gender, unemployment and resistance.

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You can find Mary's writing at Living Histories. Here's some extra resources provided by Mary who you can contact at mary.sheehan@student.unimelb.au :

• School of History and Philosophical Studies forum page
• My Marvellous Melbourne podcasts
• In addition listeners can contribute to the Journal of the Plague Year, and online archive of COVID-19.

You can find Liz Crash on Twitter, and more about her collaborative project, Underfoot, with Jinghua Qian here. The previous Women on the Line featuring Liz is here.