Hannah Maguire
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85 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
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I'm still on the Tudor side of TikTok and I was watching one this morning about Henry the Eighth and how his ulcers could be smelled from sixty feet away.
Oh and there is documentation that his doctor at least once had to remove worms that were living in his legs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The authorities ordered the fleet out of the harbour, but it was already too late, and over the next seven years what that ship brought in killed anywhere between twenty five to two hundred million people.
Earning it the enduring name.
But where did it come from?
What was it?
How did it spread and how did it leave a lasting impact?
Firstly, let's talk about what the Black Death actually was.
For a long, long time nobody really knew.
But after the pulp from the teeth of plague victims were dug up from a mass grave in Italy, we now know what the Black Death was caused by.
It was an infection of the bacterium Yacenia
This bacteria is
The plague is thought to have originated in Asia over two thousand years ago, though recent research has indicated the pathogen responsible for the Black Death is the
may have existed in Europe as early as three thousand BC.
We just don't know for sure.
But we can probably safely say this particular strain that caused the Black Death came from East.
Because even before those twelve death ships pulled into port at Messina, Europe had been awash with rumours about a great pestilence that was cutting through China, India, Persia, Syria, and Egypt.
Now of course this wasn't the only entry point for the deadly plague into Europe.
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