Hannah Maguire

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20,417 appearances 87 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 3d ago

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RedHanded · ShortHand: The Black Death · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

Makes sense.

Oh yeah, f I would absolutely be thinking that.

I love the word pestilence.

It is a good word.

And it's easy to see why people were sure that the end was extremely fucking nigh.

In some cities the death rate was eighty per cent.

And as the bodies piled up, the authorities couldn't keep up with clearing them away or burying the dead.

So, corpses piled up in the streets, rotting and putrid, and

And there was nothing anyone could do but watch on in horror as starving dogs tore the corpses apart.

Gomorrah.

Italians were saying it was.

I can't imagine people having that opinion about a pandemic.

But soon they'd

summer.

It was in the UK.

Once in the UK the plague spread at an estimated rate of five miles a day, decimating towns and villages.

And this totally changed the UK forever by bringing an end to feudalism.

Now I'm gonna tell you.

At the time, the UK had a population of about five to six million people.

With ninety percent of those people living in the countryside as serfs who work the land.

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