The village of Eyam saw 260 of its residents killed by the plague On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath - the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the ...

In 1666, William Mompesson, the rector of Eyam village, gathered its 750 residents to lay out a plan for containing an outbreak of the bubonic plague. They arrived at the decision to voluntarily ...

Like the surrounding villages, Eyam, England—a farming settlement of roughly 800—was vulnerable when the bubonic plague, or Black Death, arrived on its doorstep from London in August 1655.

In September 1665, George Viccars, a tailor’s assistant in Eyam, unloaded a bundle of flea-infested blankets from London. Bubonic plague had recently broken out in the capital in the latest wave ...

Because plague-time rules meant families had to bury ... Indeed, whereas today we have online food deliveries, people in Eyam organised for supplies to be left at the village boundary stone ...

But today the heroic behaviour associated with one of them, Eyam, during a plague outbreak over 350 years ago, is held up as an example to the world of how we can tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

In the year 1665, Eyam was ravaged by the bubonic plague. As the disease spread rapidly throughout the village, the residents of Eyam made the difficult decision to isolate themselves from the ...

On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath - the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the remote Derbyshire village of Eyam. Their fate had been sealed four ...

The village of Eyam saw 260 of its residents killed by the plague On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath - the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the ...

On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath - the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the remote Derbyshire village of Eyam. Their fate had been sealed four ...