London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly through the city, killing tens of thousands.

a sign of bubonic plague. The plague had no cure and once a person had caught it, there was very little the doctors could do to treat them. An engraving showing the Great Plague of London, 1665 ...

Most people infected with plague during the 1665 outbreak had bubonic plague ... The outbreak in London was particularly bad. 68,596 deaths were recorded in the city, though the true figure ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624 ... the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the ...

The festival celebrates the end of the Great Plague of 1665-1666, a pandemic of bubonic plague which began in London and spread further afield. According to local tradition the disease arrived in ...