A Remarkable Doctor | Ken Follett’s Journey Into the Dark Ages

S01E01: 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 affecte...

01: 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 t...

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 ...

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.

01: 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 ...

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

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

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...

S01E05: 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 d...

02: 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 L...

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

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

Medieval Realms: 05: 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 m...

03: 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 centur...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The Black Death | Europe: A Natural History

How the black death was spread in the late 1340's.

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

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

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 Journey Into the Dark Ages

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