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  1. Journal of the Plague Year: An Online Archive of COVID-19 Times

    Universities around the world are collaborating to crowd-source coronavirus accounts creating an archive of COVID-19 for future historians. Last month, we announced the launch of Journal …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/04/21/journal-of-the-plague-year-an-online-archive-of-covid-19-times

  2. Death in a Time of Corona

    The COVID-19 pandemic is dramatically changing how family and friends around the world can mourn and memorialise loved ones who pass away – from funerals limited …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/04/16/death-in-a-time-of-corona

  3. Wave as Eigenzeit: A Meditation on Medial Time

    In the 2019–2020 academic year, Dang Nguyen from History and Philosophy of Science in SHAPS is spending her time in the United States as a Fox …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/04/04/wave-as-eigenzeit

  4. A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID19

    Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne, looking West (detail), 24 March 2020. Photographer: Katie Dunning (Old Treasury Building). A Journal of the Plague Year: an Archive of CoVid19

    The Melbourne History Workshop in SHAPS has launched the Melbourne node of ‘A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of Covid19’, in collaboration with our …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/03/27/a-journal-of-the-plague-year-an-archive-of-covid19

  5. Were These the Good Old Days? The 1919 Flu Pandemic in Australia

    As we watch the global COVID-19 pandemic unfold, some scholars are looking back to the history of the worldwide influenza pandemic of 1918 to 1920. Mary …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/03/15/were-these-the-good-old-days

  6. Our Savage History of Fighting Bushfires

    This Australian summer brought with it devastating bushfires affecting many communities around the country. In Victoria, the bushfire season is frequently at its peak in February, …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/02/13/our-savage-history-of-fighting-bushfires

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