When cases of plague pop up in the US, it can feel straight up medieval. It's treatable, but how and why does it persist?

Though its route through Central Asia remains elusive, two German researchers believe they have discovered how — and why — the plague made it to Medieval Europe. A climate catastrophe that forced a ...

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A film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the Bard and his wife, imagines the lives of the Shakespeare family in fantastical and heartbreaking ...

The Lost Generation song from Horrible Histories transports you back to the ghastly glitz and glaring glamour of the 1920s. From horrible Hollywood heroes like Josephine Baker and Charlie Chaplin to ...

If you like to be beside the seaside, then this is the song for you! Grab your bucket and spade and head to the beach with the Horrible Histories gang. Join Queen Victoria as she tells you all about ...

Volcanic eruptions may have set off a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe, according to new research. Clues contained in tree rings have identified 14th Century volcanic activity as ...

Next July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding, a milestone set to be celebrated across the country. American history will serve as the centerpiece of many of these ...

The bubonic plague pandemic, more commonly known as the Black Death, reached Europe in 1347 and quickly affected Italian port cities. The plague then spread throughout Europe over the next few years, ...

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