Families and communities across New South Wales have been the custodians of memories and experiences of the pneumonic influenza pandemic throughout the past century. The RAHS would like to share your accounts, so that others can understand its diverse and enduring consequences. Please send in short memories, family stories or your researched pieces on the local effects of the flu pandemic, including locations and pictures, if you have them. With your permission, we will post edited stories of the intimate impact of the pandemic here. Together, we can create a patchwork history of the fractured world of 1919.
Email: digital@rahs.org.au
Goodbye war, hello plague … the hell of Spanish Flu
Helensburgh and the 1919 Influenza Epidemic - Illustrated Booklet
The Twin Towns: Coolangatta and Tweed Heads
Remembering the Flu in Newtown
The epidemic affects remote Bundella
What an abnormal year it had been
Two influenza deaths in Boggabri (1919)
Influenza at The King's School
The Day They Closed Barker College
Flu in the Tweed Valley District (Part I)
Flu in the Tweed Valley District (Part II)
The 1918-19 Pneumonic Influenza in Goulburn
The Influenza Pandemic in Lithgow
Diary of a Pathogen: Wagga Wagga
St Andrew's College: From the Archives
Effect of Influenza on Picture Shows and Theatres in NSW
Into the West: Movement of Spanish Flu into Far West NSW Border Towns
A Monument to 'Spanish Flu' Courage in Braidwood
Braidwood’s ‘Salubrious Climate’
First to Serve: W. Clarke & O.N. Hayes
Influenza and romance in West Wyalong
Flu Frenzy: Taming the 1919 Influenza Pandemic
Don't Stand So Close To Me: Schools In the Pandemic Front Line of 1919
Isolation and community restoration in Tenterfield

City staff at the Sydney Town Hall wearing protective masks during the outbreak of Spanish Influenza, c. 1919. [City Archives 093660]
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