Comments on: The Black Death in Eyam: A Case of Ill Fate http://blog.aurorahistoryboutique.com/the-black-death-in-eyam-a-case-of-ill-fate/ Insight into History - A Weekly Instrospective Into The Past Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:13:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Disaster historian http://blog.aurorahistoryboutique.com/the-black-death-in-eyam-a-case-of-ill-fate/comment-page-1/#comment-834 Disaster historian Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:32:43 +0000 http://blog.aurorahistoryboutique.com/?p=4267#comment-834 Good to see the selflessness of the people of 17th century Eyam being celebrated. I've been to the village a few times and it's well worth a visit. However, it is not true to say that it was mainly southern England that suffered from the Black Death and the various later plague epidemics. The Black Death ranged far and wide in Britian, killing perhaps half the population of East Anglia, wiping out whole villages in Leicestershire and accounting for perhaps a third of the people of Scotland. In 1603, York lost a third of her inhabitants, and in 1665-6, East Anglia again suffered very badly. website: http : // www . disasterhistorian . com Good to see the selflessness of the people of 17th century Eyam being celebrated. I’ve been to the village a few times and it’s well worth a visit. However, it is not true to say that it was mainly southern England that suffered from the Black Death and the various later plague epidemics. The Black Death ranged far and wide in Britian, killing perhaps half the population of East Anglia, wiping out whole villages in Leicestershire and accounting for perhaps a third of the people of Scotland. In 1603, York lost a third of her inhabitants, and in 1665-6, East Anglia again suffered very badly.

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