Four bags of money hidden around 1640 and worth "much more than a craftsman could earn in a year" have been found inside a ...

Scientists who developed the AstraZeneca COVID jab are working on a new vaccine to combat the Black Death amid rising fears ...

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in ...

When 'The Great Plague' struck 17th Century England, one rural community took decisive action that was unusual for the time, but still fascinates centuries later. Video by the BBC's Howard ...