TORNADOES, volcanic winters and 70-foot tsunamis aren’t the first words that come to mind when you think: Britain. But our ...

London has burned, bled, and rotted — but never fallen. From the Great Plague of 1665 to the Great Fire of 1666, the city ...

This is often referred to as the ‘Great Plague.’ During the outbreak of 1665 - 1666, 68,596 deaths were recorded in London alone, while thousands more across the country died from the plague.

“One of the great mysteries is why the plague never returned to London after 1665,” Carver says. “Up until that time it was a fairly regular visitor to the city, but never afterward ...

Crossrail, a subsidiary of Transport for London, has been deploying archaeologists ... Researchers still do not know why the Great Plague was the last major outbreak of plague in the UK, but ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624 ... known as the Great Plague, claimed the lives of 100,000 Londoners ...

Medical professionals wore it during 1656 outbreaks in Italy, the 1665 London Plague, and the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720. Even then, masking was controversial, notes Winston Black, a medieval ...

You'll struggle to find a Brit that hasn't heard of the Black Death (1300s) or the Great Plague of London (1600s). But less well-known is the bizarre outbreak of "sweating sickness" in the late ...