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Showing posts with label plague. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plague. Show all posts
Monday, September 29, 2025

Book Spotlight: The Blackest Time by Ken Tentarelli

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  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...
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Thursday, February 1, 2018

Introduction of farming led to ‘Black Death’-type population collapse

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History Extra The introduction of farming into Western Europe 7,500 years ago led to dramatic population collapse, according to new re...
Monday, August 21, 2017

10 dangers of the medieval period

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History Extra 1) Plague  The plague was one of the biggest killers of the Middle Ages – it had a devastating effect on the population...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Your 60-second guide to the Black Death

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History Extra Death strangling victim of Black Death, 1376. (Artist Werner Forman, image Alamy) Q: What was the Black Death?  A: In ...
Friday, September 30, 2016

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Black Death

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History Extra Plague victims in Perugia. From a 14th century manuscript of the vernacular text 'La Franceschina'. (Photo By D...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Everything you know about 17th-century London is wrong

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History Extra Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, 1605. Contrary to popular belief, Guy Fawkes was not executed for masterminding ...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Coffee, plague and the Great Fire: the pleasures and perils of Restoration London

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History Extra Great Plague of 1665, London. Contemporary engraving. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images) Two of the great...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

History Trivia - Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction

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March 20 1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction was thought to have been the caused the plague epidemic
Thursday, October 15, 2015

10 dangers of the medieval period

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