The Black Death | Europe: A Natural History

1: Black Death | World's Worst Century

Was the 14th century the worst time in history to be alive? The population of Britain was ravaged by a plague that drove mankind to th...

1: The Great Plague | Plague, Fire, War and Treason

This episode examines the Great Plague of 1665, one of the darkest moments in Britain's history, when over one-fifth of L...

2: The Great Fire of London | Plague, Fire, War and Treason

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of Lo...

3: The Great Famine and the Black Death | Michael Wood's Story of England

Michael Wood's portrait of one village across the whole of English history reaches the 14th century...

5: The Deserted Village | History File

Wharram Percy, E Yorks, is just one of 3,000 deserted medieval village sites in Britain. What secrets do its grass mounds and overgrow...

A Remarkable Doctor | Ken Follett's Jouney Into the Dark Ages

Author Ken Follett explores the work of a plague doctor in the Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Florence. Contains...

Black Death | Ken Follett's Journey Into the Dark Ages

Ken Follett tells the story of the Black Death through the true stories of a monk in Winchester, a doctor in Florence ...

How the Black Death changed social structure | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama explains how the Black Death changed Medieval social structures.

How the Black Death Spread | Ken Follett's Jouney Into the Dark Ages

Professor Johannes Krause explains the modern scientific understanding of how the Black Death spread fro...

How the Lollard religion grew from the Black Death | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama explains how the Lollard religion was developed from the Black Death.

Medieval treatment and beliefs on the cause of the Black Death | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama discusses the Medieval beliefs about what caused the Black...

One Family and the Black Death | Ken Follett's Jouney Into the Dark Ages

Author Ken Follett explores the impact of the Black Death in Britain through the lens of one family...

S1E2: Black Death | Lucy Worsley Investigates

How did the Black Death change Britain? Lucy Worsley examines the latest science and explores how the huge death toll affected ...

S1E5: King Death | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama continues his look at British history with the Black Death, the horror of medieval Britain. Those it did...

Social changes after the Black Death | Ken Follett's Jouney Into the Dark Ages

Author Ken Follett explores the societal changes that came about as a result of the Black Deat...

The First Signs of the Black Death in Europe | Ken Follett's Jouney Into the Dark Ages

Author Ken Follett explores the first signs of the Black Death in Europe and the early...

The Most Dangerous Job in the World | Ken Follett's Jouney Into the Dark Ages

As the plague comes to Winchester and the Catholic Church attempts to offer solutions, monks ar...

The symptoms of Black Death and how it spread | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama discusses the black death, explaining it's symptoms and how it spread.

Walsham le Willows | Lucy Worsley Investigates

Lucy explores the records about the Black Death for the small village of Walsham le Willows, and what happened to the families...

Which bacteria caused the plague? | Ken Follett's Jouney Into the Dark Ages

Professor Johannes Krause was part of a team that used DNA to research which bacteria caused the ...