Jack Hargreaves explains what caused 79 Dorset villages to vanish and at the same time kill about 1/3rd of the population of Britain.

Le Cours de l'histoire Épisode du mardi 5 juillet 2022 par Xavier Mauduit France Culture

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Piers Plowman and the Great Uprising of 1381 By Kathryn Walton Medievalists.net   The Great Uprising of 1381 saw a group of dissatisfied peasants and their supporters march on London with demands that the king abolish serfdom and a new poll tax. The revolt remains one of the most widespread...

  Mass grave shows how Black Death devastated the countryside   Grave in Lincolnshire dates to medieval pandemic of 1348 and reveals rural plague catastrophe   Esther Addley in  The Guardian <!-- [if gte mso 9]> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template>...

Mass Burial of Black Death victims discovered in England DECEMBER 16, 2016  BY  MEDIEVALISTS.NET

At least one in three Europeans and untold millions in Asia died. What was the source of this brutal, lethal efficiency? By Wendy Orent, an Atlanta-based anthropologist specialising in health and disease. She is the author of Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World’s Most...