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The sweating sickness was one of the fastest-killing diseases in recorded history. Victims could go from feeling healthy to dead within a single day. It struck England repeatedly between 1485 and 1551 ...

In the early 14th century, the small Anglesey community of Tal-y-llyn had a population of around 110, all of them farming lands owned by the Bishop of Bangor. Life was tough but food was relatively ...

The elevation of Lesli Hore-Belisha to the peerage in the Queen’s New Years Honors List brings to 13 the number of Jews in the House of Lords. This is the largest number of Jews to sit at one time in ...