All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Plague: London 1665 Plague: London 1665 is an RPG with pixel art graphics set in 1665's during the Bubonic Plague outbreak in overcrowded and polluted ...

In July 2020, a quote ostensibly written in 1665 by Samuel Pepys, dubbed the world's greatest diarist by some, started to circulate on social media. The passage lamented how "gadabouts" (defined by ...

Researchers claim to have discovered the cause of the 1665 Great Plague of London, which killed more than a quarter of the city’s population in the span of a year, according to CNN. Scientists from ...

The Mootes have written an extraordinary and insightful account of life in London during 1665, when nearly 100,000 people died of the plague. They detail the havoc unleashed upon the city and the ...

While “social distancing” and “self-quarantine” were previously unfamiliar concepts for many of us, they are hardly new. Even people who lived before the discovery of microbes believed such actions ...

Just what we need, another reminder about the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, History Channel ordered two new scripted miniseries as part of its move back to limited series, and one of them focuses ...

Reading the Inbox in the Dec. 13 Globe (”Doctors wage battle against more than just the virus”), I recalled that in Daniel Defoe’s account of London’s 1665 plague, “A Journal of the Plague Year,” he ...

In 1665, London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly through the city, killing tens of thousands.

If you need a role model for life in a plague, it is hard to beat Samuel Pepys. Pepys (pronounced Peeps) was a man about town in the London of the late 17th century, a member of Parliament and of the ...

The infection rate of plague in the 1300s — when it first emerged in Europe — doubled roughly every 43 days. But the 17th century, the number of new infections doubled every 11 days. (CN) — A study ...

A goose flies through the Canary Wharf area of London on Thursday. The coronavirus is reminiscent of the bubonic plague's toll on the city in 1665. (Victoria Jones/AP) Perspective by Mary E. Fissell ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...