A ROAD in the heart of York gave way to a sinkhole and exposed a vital part of the city’s past. Archaeologists have found the remains of one of England’s largest medieval hospitals buried ...

Andrew Stuttaford collects sources arguing that the depopulation that followed the Black Death of 1348 had a silver lining: In 1300 England’s population had been around six million.

Australia’s coordinated response to the plague outbreak was instrumental in proving the importance of public health and modern, sanitary urbanplanning principles in controlling the spread of ...

Scientists who developed the AstraZeneca COVID jab are working on a new vaccine to combat the Black Death amid rising fears the plague could re-emerge.

Netflix’s The Decameron focuses specifically on the Black Death, which hit Florence in March 1348. Due to being a period piece, The Decameron doesn’t include many details about the plague that ...

The Netflix adaptation is a soapy dark comedy that follows a group of Italian nobles and their servants as they attempt to survive the Black Death, or the bubonic plague, in 1348.

The medieval plague, often referred to as the "Black Death," was an outbreak of disease across Asia and Europe that killed millions of people between 1348 and 1350.

Black women of African descent were the most likely to die during an outbreak of bubonic plague between 1348-1350 in the British capital London, according to research published in the ...

A museum has claimed black women were more likely to die of the plague in medieval London because of 'premodern structural racism'. The new study, which fails to put an estimate on how many black ...

The Black Death ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions. Plague outbreaks in Europe then continued until the 19th century. One of the most commonly recited facts about the plague in ...