Birth of Empire: The East India Company with Dan Snow. A teaser

This could be an interesting documentary!

Dan Snow Speaks to a Public Health Historian About Modern Pandemics

Recommendable! The West had little experience to deal with such pandemic as COVID-19 since the occurrence of such pandemics have become rather rare in the West since the early 20th century.

Learn about The Black Death with Dan Snow

Recommendable! Among many other things, we learn that some drastic changes in climate during the 1346-53 period caused e.g. poor harvests and hunger. A number of positive societal changes are also mentioned, e.g. massive change in land ownership distribution, better jobs and pay for peasants and workers, more participation of women in the economy etc. However, also the expansion of government power may have also increased in the aftermath by government assuming increased responsibility for public health