New research by Karen McBride, an accounting professor at the University of Portsmouth, argues that the weekly Bills of ...

Title page for a collection of ‘Bills of Mortality’ that chronicled the Great Plague’s death counts (1665) (via Wellcome Images) The personification of death goes back centuries, with Thanatos of ...

A mass burial pit thought to contain 30 victims of the Great Plague of 1665 has been discovered by Crossrail workers near Liverpool Street station in London. The bodies and a gravestone marked "1665" ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. On April 30, 1665 – 355 years ago today – a high-ranking British government ...

The author of a history of the Great Fire of London here offers a scholarly, meticulous yet accessible analysis of the last epidemic of bubonic plague to afflict England. The scourge of 1665 killed ...

David Roberts is the co-editor of the World Classics edition of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year with Louis Landa. In 1722, Daniel Defoe pulled off one of the great literary hoaxes of all ...

Here’s the difference in a nutshell. Until the 20th century, we didn’t have a science of epidemiology. Plagues came out of nowhere, devastated populations, and finally magically disappeared, as ...

Janet Greenlees has received funding from the Wellcome Trust, Economic and Social Research Council, British Academy and various charities within the US and Great Britain. This piece does not directly ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Great Plague Exodus The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee ...