Past Lockdowns News Today

At the start of 2022, central banks appear ready to move aggressively on rate hikes.

ARE there lessons that can be learned from how our ancestors survived past plagues and pestilence? That was the question posed by Susan and Andrew Green in their talk on Past Lockdowns given to Ilkley & District U3A earlier this month. Although it in no way diminishes the seriousness of our current situation with Covid, the Greens draw parallels with lockdowns during the Tudors and Stuart’s in the 16th and 17th centuries when there were periods of plague and quarantine. Susan gives her pa...