100 years later, why don't we commemorate the victims and heroes of "Spanish flu"?
- Written by Peter Hobbins, ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
At Sydney’s enormous Rookwood Cemetery, a lichen-spotted headstone captures a family’s double burden of grief.
The grave contains the remains of 19-year-old Harriet Ann Ottaway, who died on 2 July 1919. Its monument also commemorates her brother Henry...





