The medieval period was one of social upheaval, and there is a list of villages, once part of local landscapes across the country, that did not survive one particularly seismic event. The Black Death ...

In subsequent years, further plague epidemics hit the UK, with the worst outbreak since the Black Death beginning in 1665, when London lost around 15% of its population. It's commonly believed ...

How the Black Death entered Europe.

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ...

Roger Black won a bronze and two silver medals across the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, but recently had to undergo open-heart ...

The death of a former inmate at an Oxfordshire prison is currently being investigated. An inmate has died after being released from HMP Bullingdon, near Bicester, on September 11, 2023. The ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...