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Guerrilla History

From the Archives - Historical Impact of the Plague

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8622 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Guerrilla History "From the Archives" is a new series of episodes, consisting of previously patreon-exclusive episodes that we are unlocking for the general public after one year.  This From the Archives episode was originally released on Patreon on November 4, 2020, and is about the plague.  Join us in this old episode where we discussed a bit of the science of the plague, as well as the historical impact of it in the 14th century.

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a new Youtube show/podcast he cohosts with our friend Safie called What The Huck?!, which can be found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA7YUQWncZIB2nIeEunE31Q/ or major podcast apps at https://anchor.fm/what-the-huck.  Adnan can be followed on twitter @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/.   Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio and cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod.  Follow and support these shows on patreon, and find them at https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/

Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast's artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, guerrilla history listeners. This is Adnan Hussein, one of the co-hosts of guerrilla history.

0:07.3

Brett, Henry, and I have some news that I hope you'll be excited to hear. More free content for you.

0:14.3

Every month, as you know, we record a reconnaissance report, a major episode with a guest about their historical work, as well as an

0:22.6

intelligence briefing, a shorter discussion, usually among the three of us. Occasionally, we also

0:28.2

post a dispatch from the field of contemporary left history, often with a guest about a breaking

0:33.2

story or a recent set of events or issues and provide some historical analysis.

0:38.8

We also typically record a second intelligence briefing as an exclusive episode for patrons,

0:45.9

subscribers at patreon.com slash gorilla history.

0:50.4

We have decided to unlock an intelligence briefing each month after a year has passed as special

0:57.3

from the archive episodes for you to enjoy. We hope you'll find these a useful resource.

1:03.8

Of course, if you'd like to subscribe and have early access to intelligence briefings and all

1:08.4

the other additional content like readings and discussions of

1:11.1

classic texts, primary sources, reviews and discussions, do become a patron at patreon.com

1:17.5

slash gorilla history with our gratitude. We do this because we love to make history a resource

1:23.6

in our political education as an activist global left and in our struggles for justice.

1:29.3

So we're happy to share these older episodes with you in this series from the archive.

1:34.3

As ever, solidarity. You remember Den Ben-Boole?

1:47.0

No!

1:48.0

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

1:52.0

They didn't have anything but a rank.

1:55.0

The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.

1:59.0

But they put some guerrilla action on.

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