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Covid brought fresh attention to this Derbyshire community, which endured 14 months of isolation in the 17th century

Chichester, like the rest of the world, has been affected by the outbreak of a highly infectious disease, coronavirus Covid-19. It has been claimed that this pandemic is the greatest challenge in a generation.

Sir Isaac Newton was one of the most influential scientists in world history. He is best-known for his three laws of motion, and his law of universal gravitation.

A SACRIFICE is giving up something you value for the sake of others. Weve all been doing it intermittently for nearly a year because of the pandemic.

Black Death Trotting on ‘The Devils Hoof’ The Great Plague lasted from the beginning of 1665 until September 1666, representing the last major epidemic of the  bubonic plague  to occur in England, killing an estimated 200,000 (one quarter of Londons population). Fatalities soared in the city of London in part because Londoners failed to self-quarantine, but this was not the case in the rural English village of Eyam located idyllically in the Derbyshire Dales within the Peak District ...

In 1665 the country, especially densely populated London, suffered from the plague. The following year the House of Lords met to discuss the situation. It was decided that the policy of confining infected persons within their household would not apply to “persons of note” and plague hospitals, such as the house on Fambridge Road, would not be established near the houses of the nobility. Large numbers of the rich fled the capital to their country estates, unknowing or possibly unconcer...