London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly through the city, killing tens of thousands.

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 ...

This week sees the publication of The Village, a chilling suspense novel from author Lisa Rookes which explores dark folklore ...

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 ...

The first pound of tea imported into England is attributed to Lord Arlington in the year of the Great Plague of London (1665–66). It cost his lordship sixty shillings and was brought by him from ...