Introducing a six-part podcast series examining how the Black Death shook the Middle Ages
HistoryExtra podcast editor Ellie Cawthorne presents a brand new history series. Learn from expert historians on how this devastating disease killed millions and transformed societies.
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- Kill or cure: can you spot the real historical remedies?
- Post pandemic: how the years after the Black Death briefly became a ‘golden age’ for medieval women
- How 17th-century London reacted to the Great Plague
- The Black Death: everything you wanted to know
- 8 turning points in medieval European history