Pandemic - spare a thought for those who went before.
April 21, 2021A new disease is sweeping through continental Europe at alarming speed, felling all in its path. It enters England through the south coast ports and soon reaches London where rich and poor alike succumb. Soon its tendrils spread through the whole country: even as far as Devon where the graveyards fill rapidly. It’s an all too familiar scenario. But the year is 1557 and Mary Tudor sits on the throne of England.
This was no swift killer like the sweating sickness or the plague, which, it was said, …
