A History of Influenza

TTE Book review

Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890―1950 (Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History) 1st ed. 2023. Palgrave Macmillan

Trust the Evidence does not usually write book reviews. However, the Swansea historian Michael Breslier’s hefty and well-researched 476-pager is worth the exception.

Modern Flu “approaches t…