"Bring Out Your Dead" A street during the Great Plague in London, 1665, with a death cart and mourners. Image: Wellcome in Creative Commons Coronavirus is not the first deadly infection to strike ...

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DURING the 17th century the worst outbreak of plague since the Black Death of 1348 tore its way through London. Thousands were estimated to have perished during the outbreak, but what was the plague?

The gun carriage from The London, which exploded and sank in the Thames Estuary in 1665, weighs about a ton A gun carriage has been recovered from the wreck of a warship which exploded and sank in the ...

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DURING the 17th century the worst outbreak of plague since the Black Death of 1348 tore its way through London. Thousands were estimated to have perished during the outbreak, but what was the plague?

The gun carriage from The London, which exploded and sank in the Thames Estuary in 1665, weighs about a ton A gun carriage has been recovered from the wreck of a warship which exploded and sank in the ...