Sean Bean's characters have suffered brutal deaths on TV and in films. The most notable has been 2010's Black Death, in which his onscreen demise wasn't gratuitous or graphic, but was arguably the ...

The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic, is estimated to have resulted in the death of nearly 50% of Europe’s 14th century population, making it one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in human ...

It provoked strange cures like no other. Anthony Delaney takes Maddy Pelling in search of the oddest cures concocted in the face of the Black Death, busting a few myth along the way (sorry Plague ...