A Visit To The ‘Plague Village’ Of Eyam

The Great Plague of 1665 was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Britain. London suffered the worst of it in terms of sheer numbers, where an estimated 100,000 people, around 15–20% of the city’s population, lost their lives. However one of the most remarkable stories of the epidemic took place, not in the […] The post A Visit To The ‘Plague Village’ Of Eyam appeared first on Living London History.