middle ages

Most people associate the term “plague” with the massive and destructive event that killed 25 million Europeans in the Middle Ages, said professor John Swartzberg of UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

During the Middle Ages, infected rats were to blame for the Black Death in Europe in the 14th century.

In his letter to the Telegraph, the Islington North MP sets out the history behind the allotment, which started when landowners enclosed common land in the Middle Ages.

False allegations of child abuse date back to the blood libel of the Middle Ages and the assertion that Jews tortured and murdered Christian children as part of their ceremonial worship.

The leasehold system dates back to the Middle Ages but the system as we know it came about in the 1920s.