Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in ...
London's history is pockmarked with death and disease, from the infamous Great Plague of the 1600s to the devastating impacts ...
This is often referred to as the ‘Great Plague.’ During the outbreak of 1665 - 1666, 68,596 deaths were recorded in London alone, while thousands more across the country died from the plague.
Popular British actor Gary Webster, best known for his role as Ray Daley in the iconic television series Minder has joined ...
In 1348, the Black Death arrived in London, a plague killing approximately 40,000 people - nearly half of the city's population. The church had given the cause of the pestilence to be the ...
Construction work near Farringdon Station brought medieval London to light. Tests on skeletons of plague victims buried nearby showed that then, as now, London drew people from afar. Peel back the ...
Lord Strange's Men had played at the Rose Theatre in London between February and June 1592, until the outbreak of plague in London closed the theatres and forced the playing companies to tour the ...
When plague arrived in Eyam on a bundle of cloth from London, no-one could have foreseen the ordeal that lay ahead. The following 14 months were characterised by death and disease, sacrifice and ...
Engineering work is set to plague trains into Southampton for the next two nights, as rail replacement buses will be in ...
Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...