Subscribe
Columnists
Newsletters
Historical TV and Film
Today in history
Download our app
The official website for BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed
Search
Period
Back to
Main menu
Roman
Viking
Anglo-Saxon
Medieval
Tudor
Second World War
View all Periods
People
Back to
Main menu
Tutankhamun
Richard III
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
Winston Churchill
View all People
Topics
Back to
Main menu
Kings and queens
Weird and wonderful
Sex and love
Social history
Religious history
Women's history
Historical Q&As
Heritage visits
History hero
Historical recipes
Turning points in British history
View all Topics
Podcast
Back to
Main menu
All podcasts
Episodes by topic
Podcast club
Podcast series
Back to
Podcast
Six Wives
Greatest cities
Historical conspiracies
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Mary Rose
Tutankhamun
15 minutes of fame
Everything you wanted to know about...
The black death
Salem witch trials
Video
Back to
Main menu
Tudor Royal Women
Medieval Masterclass with Dan Jones
Monarchy masterclass with Tracy Borman
Quizzes
Magazines
Back to
Main menu
BBC History Magazine
BBC History Revealed
BBC World Histories Magazine
Subscriber downloads
Special editions
About us
Subscribe
Subscribe
Subscribe
Columnists
Newsletters
Historical TV and Film
Today in history
Download our app
Home
Spanish flu
Spanish flu
20th Century
Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world
First World War
“Far too little, too late”: what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain?
20th Century
Why was there a backlash against face masks during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918?
Advertisement
First World War
Q&A
Why was the 1918-19 pandemic known as Spanish Flu?
General Modern
Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past?
General Modern
Coronavirus: a historical perspective
General Modern
Could flu really kill thousands again?
General History
10 historical events that happened in March
General Modern
Books interview with Paul Morland: “Even the Spanish flu pandemic wasn’t enough to stop population growth”
Advertisement
20th Century
The Spanish Flu pandemic