Scientists who developed the AstraZeneca COVID jab are working on a new vaccine to combat the Black Death amid rising fears the plague could re-emerge. The plague first hit British shores in 1348 ...
W hen the Black Death hit London, England in 1348 CE, it began to affect the English language. Due to the class struggle imposed on England by the Norman Conquest in 1066 CE, the linguistic makeup ...
Move over Bridgerton - a Sex Education star is set to front a new, raunchy period drama on Netflix. Tanya Reynolds played Lily Iglehart, the alien-obsessed girlfriend of Ola Nyman, in the first three ...
Experts have warned a disease which killed 50 million people across Europe in the 1300s could make a return, and the result might be even more devastating. As the risk of a super-powerful ...
More than 700 years since the Black Death pandemic, scientists are developing a bubonic plague jab – but why? And should we be worried? Back in 2020, the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc ...
AT its first meeting of the year, on January 7, members enjoyed a talk by Peter Brown on “Londoners in Henley before the Black Death”. Peter concentrated on the period between 1280 and 1348, when corn ...
When the Black Death ravaged Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, the soldiers of Scotland saw opportunity in crisis. First hitting England in 1348, the plague’s deadly spread across the country..