Tywyn and District History Society Forum

Part 1 : Resurgence of Bubonic plague in the seventeenth century – the Great Plague This outbreak occurred during the early years of the Restoration. It began in the St Giles area of outer London at the end of 1664, reached a peak in the summer of 1665 and lasted approximately two years. This was th...

Part 1 : Resurgence of Bubonic plague in the seventeenth century – the Great Plague This outbreak occurred during the early years of the Restoration. It began in the St Giles area of outer London at the end of 1664, reached a peak in the summer of 1665 and lasted approximately two years. This was th...

Pandemics – a recurring theme in history Bubonic plague was (is!) one of those major deadly diseases that had a multi-century cycle of virulence (‘virulence’ being not quite the right word for a bacterial disease). It’s cycle was roughly three centuries. There were major outbreaks in the fourteenth ...

History never seems to be far from the headlines these days, whether it's 'in the making' with the unfolding Covid Crisis or 'in the re-making' as in the debates over whether all honorary statues should still be for public exhibition. I'm in the camp that recognises this as a serious and important i...