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A cheery story for a grey winter's day...

On my recent trip to Derbyshire I stopped off in Eyam. It was here in 1665 the villagers imposed their own self-monitored quarantine to stop the spread of…

by davids

May 21, 2014

Italian plague of 1629-1631

March 10, 2014 The Italian Plague of 1629??31 was a series of outbreaks of bubonic plague which occurred from 1629 through 1631 in northern Italy. This epidemic…

by noptek

Nov. 29, 2012

History on history...

This isn??t much of a picture but it illustrates the chaotic history of the City. In the foreground is a fragment of the old Roman city wall dating from the 2nd…

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