From the National Covid Memorial Wall on London's South Bank to St Paul's Cathedral's Remember Me in Westminster, British memorials to the coronavirus pandemic are proliferating. But whose voices are represented on these memorials and in what sense do they represent the nation?

Books, music, artworks and memorials help ensure that victims of pandemics are remembered. But while the Black Death is part of our collective cultural memory, the 1918-1919 'Spanish flu' has not been the object of similar mediation.