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Dear Government, Please Make Use Of Historical Knowledge to Defeat the Pandemic
8 April 2021
Those trying to solve the current coronavirus pandemic cannot do so with a purely biomedical and technical strategy. Four Dutch historians make the case for a multidisciplinary approach, taking into account the social, cultural, economic and psychological dimensions of society. History serves as a t
The Spanish Flu in the Netherlands. Like A Scythe Across the Country
27 March 2019
One hundred years ago the world encountered a Spanish flu pandemic which cost an estimated 50 to 100 million lives. That is many times the death toll of World War I, in whose wake the disease arose. It was the greatest and most deadly disease since the plague in the middle ages. But in the Netherlan