Professor Adrian Bell featured in a visual guide to how humans have reacted to pandemics throughout history in The Guardian on 29 April 2020. He comments that after the Black Death 'There were riots against the Flemish as people tried to deal with the unexplainable. This also happened later during upheaval around the peasants’ revolt, which came after decades of trauma from population loss and class conflict – people attacked outsiders for no reason other than that they were different'.