A Tale of Two Pandemics: CBA during the Spanish Flu

A Tale of Two Pandemics: CBA during the Spanish Flu

ByCCBHS Editor

One hundred years ago, another pandemic was causing devastation around the world. At a time where digital banking and contactless payments couldn’t easily substitute the use of cash, Danny John and Juli Liddicoat investigate what the world looked like for Commonwealth Bank employees and customers, as seen through the eyes of the Founding Governor Denison…

100 years apart on George Street

You Must Wear a Mask

ByCCBHS Editor

In 1918-1919, when the Spanish influenza pandemic swept the globe, Australians – with their peculiar sense of humour – devised unique ways of dealing with the apparatus and cures popular at the time. For example, hideous faces were painted onto the face mask, or kewpie dolls and huge wire spiders hung from the sides. However,…