Stories

As writers adapt to a vastly altered publishing landscape, how will they remake themselves in a post-pandemic world?

The extraordinary events of the past few months are unprecedented in our lifetimes, but the response to the Covid-19 pandemic contains echoes of the 1918–19 influenza outbreak. The Library is one of many institutions following the lead of our forebears.

Australian nurse Muriel Knox Doherty recorded her experiences and insights after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 

After four years of war, ‘normal life’ ceased again in early 1919 as an influenza epidemic spread through the country.