The end of the Great War was in sight. Allied troops were still stationed all over Europe. Spain was one of the few neutral countries and was not subject to a media clampdown, as was the rest of Eu...

A Pox on you’ and ‘a plague on both your houses’ (post 1 of 5) are expressions that come to mind at times like this. It has been 100 years since the world experienced its last great pandemic.

Plague continued to be the very real ‘bogey man’ of society throughout the following centuries. By the 16th-century the playwright William Shakespeare would make use of its reputation

The incubation period of the Plague was only between 4 and six days. On being identified, the whole household was ordered to lock down (to use a 21st-century phrase) a red cross daubed on the door

In 1831 in great Britain and Northern Ireland the Game act was passed to allow the commencement of the shooting season on the 12th of August. The Game, in this case, was one of Britain’s fastest fly..