{"id":481,"date":"2020-06-16T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/?p=481"},"modified":"2020-06-23T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T10:05:58","slug":"a-history-of-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/2020\/06\/16\/a-history-of-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As Covid-19 affects us all in unexpected ways, academics at Queen&#8217;s have looked back at pandemics from the past. Dr John Curran looks at pandemics in the Ancient World; Dr James Davis examines the horrific scale of the Black Death in the fourteenth century; and Dr Marilina Cesario highlights how people thought comets were a portent of disease and death. How did society cope and what was the broader impact of disease? You can access the podcasts by clicking the image below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/queens-university-belfast-a-history-of-pandemics-podcast\/id1517030516\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"268\" width=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/is2-ssl.mzstatic.com\/image\/thumb\/Podcasts123\/v4\/2f\/0a\/2b\/2f0a2b8a-ed53-1e1e-baa1-d280d0a71af4\/mza_16317611134410823693.jpg\/268x0w.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Covid-19 affects us all in unexpected ways, academics at Queen&#8217;s have looked back at pandemics from the past. Dr John Curran looks at pandemics in the Ancient World; Dr James Davis examines the horrific scale of the Black Death in the fourteenth century; and Dr Marilina Cesario highlights how people thought comets were a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-at-qub"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}