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Welcome to the Colonial Department, the podcast where we take long-lost stories from Philippine colonial history and bring them to life. Follow us on IG: @thecolonialdept
Extra Credit: “Epidemia maligna”—the devastating outbreaks that hit Luzon and Visayas in the late 1500s
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Extra Credit: “Epidemia maligna”—the devastating outbreaks that hit Luzon and Visayas in the late 1500s
“Peste general.” “Pestilencial epidemia.” “Epidemia maligna.” In the Philippine archipelago, Spanish chroniclers wrote of deadly epidemics that struck their new possession. (Listen to S7E4 before this one.)
The Colonial Dept.
Welcome to the Colonial Department, the podcast where we take long-lost stories from Philippine colonial history and bring them to life. Follow us on IG: @thecolonialdept