Mary Ann Bernal

  Set in the 1300s during the devastating black plague, The Blackest Time is a powerful tale of compassion, love, and the human spirit’s ab...

History Extra The introduction of farming into Western Europe 7,500 years ago led to dramatic population collapse, according to new re...

History Extra Q: What was the Black Death?  A: In the Middle Ages the Black Death, or ‘pestilencia’, as contemporaries called various ...

History Extra 1) Plague  The plague was one of the biggest killers of the Middle Ages – it had a devastating effect on the population...

Ancient Origins The remains of a Medieval priest who died 700 years ago has been uncovered at Thornton Abbey in Lincolnshire. Research ...

History Extra Death strangling victim of Black Death, 1376. (Artist Werner Forman, image Alamy) Q: What was the Black Death?  A: In ...

History Extra Plague victims in Perugia. From a 14th century manuscript of the vernacular text 'La Franceschina'. (Photo By D...

History Extra A French manuscript from c1327–35 depicts a woman forging nails. Though such opportunities did exist in London before ...

History Extra 1) Plague  The plague was one of the biggest killers of the Middle Ages – it had a devastating effect on the populatio...

A mass grave of 30 possible bubonic plague victims is being excavated in London at the huge cemetery of Bedlam mental asylum that was disc...