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Geoffrey Rice's 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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these men are usually the least affected people in sicknesses like this. However during this time men were always together, in the pub and at work so they were much more likely to receive the influenza, than those who stayed at home by themselves not risking the deadly virus.

Geoffrey Rice was one of the main historians of the 1918 Influenza pandemic, he interviewed many survivors of the epidemic and published an informative book on the epidemic called Black November. Rice 's interviews were often very private and saddening. One of the most heartfelt interviews that Rice conducted was the interview of Ivy-May Marenzi-Rodgers of Trentham. Ivy-May 's father Alfred Harman Conner married her mother Ivy Hazel Fullford on the 21st February 1917.
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