While “social distancing” and “self-quarantine” were previously unfamiliar concepts for many of us, they are hardly new. Even people who lived before the discovery of microbes believed such actions ...

In July 2020, a quote ostensibly written in 1665 by Samuel Pepys, dubbed the world's greatest diarist by some, started to circulate on social media. The passage lamented how "gadabouts" (defined by ...

A lot of English people believed 1666 would be the year of the apocalypse. You can’t really blame them. In late spring 1665, bubonic plague began to eat away at London’s population. By fall, roughly 7 ...

A goose flies through the Canary Wharf area of London on Thursday. The coronavirus is reminiscent of the bubonic plague's toll on the city in 1665. (Victoria Jones/AP) Perspective by Mary E. Fissell ...

Nestled in the rolling hills of the UK county of Derbyshire lies a pretty, historic village called Eyam. Today the surface tranquillity of tea rooms and small stone cottages contrasts with the story ...

Oct. 19 (UPI) --From the 14th to the 19th centuries, Europe and Asia were struck by successive waves of the plague. New research -- published Monday in the journal PNAS-- suggests that over the course ...

Humanity has been surviving plagues for thousands of years, and we have managed to learn a lot along the way. By Annalee Newitz Contributing Opinion Writer A lot of English people believed 1666 would ...