Hundreds of thousands of red hearts adorn a wall directly opposite parliament, yet successive prime ministers have nothing to say about officially marking the lives lost in the pandemic.
- Senior Lecturer in Journalism, City St George's, University of London
A new politics of remembrance emerged during the COVID pandemic.
Waves of disease are often accompanied by waves of hate.
A bit of humility can go a long way.
For nearly 50 years academic and popular writers ignored the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. A hundred years later, historians can’t get enough of it.
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