When you think of a dangerous job in history - you might think of a soldier or a plague doctor. You would not think that hat ...

George Rae, a plague doctor, is standing Leith outside one of the isolation huts. He dreads the thought of what is waiting for him inside; more victims dying an incurable, horrible death – with ...

In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

The East London Advertiser features in new film Doctor Plague, starring former EastEnders actor Martin Kemp and Gary Webster from Minder. Set ...