Interview with Dr Michelle McKeough

Dr Michelle McKeough is an historian working in Western Australian history, especially Fremantle history. In 2000, Michelle wrote Rescues, Rogues and Rough Seas, 150 years of Water Police in Western Australia. In 2012, she was a contributing author of Voices of the West End. For her Ph D thesis at Murdoch University in 2016, Michelle examined three times of crisis in Fremantle during the twentieth century: The Bubonic Plague; The Great War; and the Depression Era.  Most recently Michelle has written This Fearful Plague, a history of the pandemic of Bubonic Plague experienced in Western Australia between 1900 and 1906, including in the Port City of Fremantle. Michelle McKeough kindly agreed to meet with our editor, Michael Barker, to discuss her latest book, the arrival of the bubonic plague around Fremantle at the turn of the 20th century, the parallels with Covid, and more besides. Enjoy!You can also read the original on Fremantle Shipping News here.Support the show