The plague, spread by fleas carried from London in the bolt of cloth, sickened and killed first the family. ... The Plague Village: In 1665, this English town chose to self-quarantine.

In the year 1665, Eyam was ravaged by the bubonic plague. As the disease spread rapidly throughout the village, the residents of Eyam made the difficult decision to isolate themselves from the ...

In 1665, 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.

The Great Plague of 1665–6 saw disease spread some four times faster in London than it did at the peak of the Black Death in 1348, a study has concluded.

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This is the first time that plague DNA from 17th-century Britain has been pinpointed and marks a breakthrough in Great Plague research. The 1665 outbreak was Britain’s last major bubonic plague ...

Contemporary English woodcut on the Great Plague of 1665. Throughout the journal, HF tells us he hopes his experiences and advice might be useful to us.

It was the fall of 1665 in the village of Eyam in the Derbyshire Peak District of England. People had heard about the terrible outbreak of plague that year in London but there were no signs of ...

The Great Plague, which lasted from 1665 to 1666, was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in the UK and is thought to have taken 100,000 lives, almost a quarter of London's population at the ...

Records tell us that the Great Plague hit the town around June 1665, and that around 1,200 citizens were to succumb, dying from the plaque. We can only imagine that month of June in 1665 as folk ...

There are records from the dark days of the plague which can throw a little light on the catastrophe. No one knows for sure how the Great Plague of 1665 entered Southampton, some suggest it came ...