
Now in paperback, the definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the medieval Black Death of the 1340s to the Great Plagues of the seventeenth century. Evidence of the foulness and cruelty of the...

Evidence of the foulness and cruelty of the greatest catastrophe to ever hit London is still being unearthed under the streets of the capital today. The fresh plague pits containing thousands of skeletons uncovered during the construction of Crossrail are a deadly reminder of...