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Plague

Chaucer for Beginners

Chaucer 1 - An Introduction to the life and times of Geoffrey Chaucer

In the introductory episode of "Chaucer for Beginners,” expert Professor Marion Turner introduces the life of writer Geoffrey Chaucer, shedding light on his background and life in 14th century England.
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Nils Chr. Stenseth And Barbara Bramanti On Evolutionary And Ecological Ends Of Epidemics

A discussion on how evolutionary biology and biological anthropology help understand the end of epidemics, particularly plague.
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Clark Larsen and Fabian Crespo on Biology, Archaeology, and Multi-disciplinary Ends

A discussion on why multi-disciplinary approaches that combine social and biological research are helpful in understanding how epidemics end.
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Monica H. Green and Nükhet Varlık on Plague Pandemics

Dr Monica H. Green (Independent Historian), Dr Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers), and Dr Erica Charters discuss how global history and the historicist sciences have shaped our understanding of plague pandemics.
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Coronavirus and ‘Disease X’

Professor Peter Millican interviews the Oxford scientists working at the forefront of research into Disease X
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Ebola

Professor Peter Millican begins the final episode of this series in 2014, at the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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HIV/AIDS

In the ninth episode of our History of Pandemics season, Professor Peter Millican leaves the perils of influenza behind, only to discover an entirely new virus: HIV.
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The 'Spanish' Flu

Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak.
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'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't?

In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak...
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Cholera

Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow
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Smallpox, and Jenner

Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries.
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The Great Plague

in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England.
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The Black Death

Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak.
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The Plague of Justinian

Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced.
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Athens: the first plague?

Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted.

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