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Left: Only known photograph of Mary Seacole , 1873. Right: Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant) by Albert Charles Challen | Public Domain | Wikimedia
The wonderful adventures of Mrs Seacole in many lands

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Wash your hands: the cautionary tale of Typhoid Mary, the original super-spreader

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The forgotten agony - the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19

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Six outbreaks and pandemics that horrified humanity

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Pushkin at the Mikhailovsky by Pyotr Konchalovsky
Splendid isolation: great minds who triumphed in lockdown

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An engraving by Pieter Brueghel the Elder showing three women afflicted with the plague | Wikipedia | Public Domain
Strictly plague dancing: The dancing mania of 1518

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The Triumph of Death
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