Last week news broke on the results of a study which was set up after the discovery of a medieval cemetery in Cambridge a few years ago that just happens to have been active during the Black Death. It is thought that London possibly suffered the worth mortality rate in the world from the Black… Continue reading Digging up patients from a medieval hospital
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The Winchester Plague Memorial Cross
Years ago, I used to write all sorts on here about holidays, weekends away and days out. The truth is, I don’t get to do any of that any more. It’s been almost a decade since I had even a short holiday close to home. Last weekend however, I had two cancellations due to tourists… Continue reading The Winchester Plague Memorial Cross
The Strasbourg Dancing Plague of 1518
We’re fast approaching mid-summer and in the UK the next few months are marked in amongst other ways, masses of music and folk festivals with the most famous of which being Glastonbury. Well before the hundreds of thousands spent their summers dancing under the gaze of King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea, there was an… Continue reading The Strasbourg Dancing Plague of 1518
Stephen Liddell 