In 1348, the Black Death arrived in London, a plague killing approximately ... A study in 2005 of medieval remains found hallux valgus - a small deformity of the big toe with a bony protrusion ...

Another as-yet-unidentified volcanic eruption in 1452-53 is thought to have been a key component of the ‘Little Ice Age’, ...

like the one in London in 1665, have been referred to as 'the Plague'. The Black Death originated in Asia in 1346. It was spread to Europe by fleas on rats living on trade ships. In medieval times ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624 ... up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe. The word that terrified ...

pestis, but “plague, probably, was what killed him ... an expert in ancient genomics at the Francis Crick Institute in London who was not involved in the study. “The well-authenticated ...

This can happen during times of war or mass illness, such as a plague. Crossrail, a subsidiary of Transport for London, has been deploying archaeologists to the site for more than a decade and has ...

and has examined risks of mortality during the medieval Black Death, in post-Conquest Roman Britain, in medieval monastic communities, and in Industrial-era London. Her research has primarily focused ...

Such views are generally based on an understanding that wages rose in the aftermath of the Black Death. However, the evidence that underpins our understanding of medieval wages is problematic. Myself ...