Dan Cruickshank follows in the footsteps of John Stow and John Strype, two of London's greatest chroniclers, to explore one ...

In the middle of the 14th century one of the deadliest epidemics in human history struck Europe. It wiped out millions of ...

The museum was originally established in 1944 by Lt Col J Rice in Babina, located in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district ...

The skeletons are among more than 20 burials found during the excavation project near the White Tower, which was built by ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

Will Smith is apparently pondering a name change after a conversation with BBC Radio Wales uncovered that he has several ...

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

Brandon Robb, 28, was also slapped with an indefinite ban from owning or keeping animals after pleading guilty to a total of ...

Classic Lemonade By the Middle Ages, lemons had been selectively bred until they were sour, and Islamic physicians had unlocked even more of the fruit’s curative potential. Elixirs of honey-sweetened ...

Tim Moore (Travel, Life & Arts, November 2) is mistaken in stating that only Vienna saw fit to commemorate a 17th-century plague epidemic with an enormous baroque tower, the Pestsäule on the ...

In the 17th century, residents in the remote English village of Eyam quarantined themselves to prevent the spread of bubonic plague. Most paid with their lives.

The 17th century epidemic was probably caused by the arrival in Northern Italy of mercenary troops in the service of the Holy Roman Empire, the infamous landsknechts. The plague spread throughout ...