ABSTRACT
Considering the massive scale of the pandemic, it is notable that its longterm impacts are not particularly obvious. The previous great plagues brought significant social, political and intellectual change in their wake. How could an outbreak of disease that may have killed as many as 100 million people lead to apparently such little change? What changes were wrought by the pandemic? Has the scope of the changes been understated or were there few or no long-term repercussions? And what were the connections between the flu and that other global conflagration, the World War?
