The Black Death: everything you wanted to know
History Extra podcast
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🗓️ 31 January 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Professor John Hatcher answers listener questions about the medieval pandemic, and reflects on how the Covid-19 crisis might shape our understanding of the plague
Professor John Hatcher, author of The Black Death: A Personal History, responds to listener questions and internet search queries about the medieval pandemic that ravaged 14th-century Europe. He also reflects on how the current Covid-19 crisis might shape our understanding of the Black Death.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's |
| 0:15.6 | best selling history magazine. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Ellie Corpon. |
| 0:28.0 | Today we have another episode in our Everything You Wanted to Know series. |
| 0:32.6 | We'll put your questions to a leading expert. |
| 0:35.9 | This time we're speaking about the Black Death with Professor John Hatcher. |
| 0:40.4 | Putting your questions to John on the medieval plague was our content director David |
| 0:44.8 | Musgrove. |
| 0:45.8 | Right, today I'm joined by John Hatcher, who is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social |
| 0:51.2 | History at the University of Cambridge and author of the Black Death and Intimate History. |
| 0:57.0 | So today as always we've all been asking you the audience to submit questions on an interesting |
| 1:03.8 | topic and the topic today is the Black Death. |
| 1:06.4 | So thank you for your questions. |
| 1:08.3 | And we will jump straight in. |
| 1:10.4 | So John the first question, this is the most popular internet search topic is when did |
| 1:14.1 | the Black Death start an end? |
| 1:16.3 | So can you kick us off with that please? |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah, it's very well known, started in 1346 and in Mongolia, possibly East China, but |
| 1:31.1 | certainly in the high steps region there. |
| 1:34.5 | And it then went on a massive circuit of the known world coming south and moving east |
| 1:40.2 | towards, so across the Mediterranean, North Africa and then working its way up, it's a Spain |
| 1:50.0 | up into Britain, it comes to England in 1348, in Dorset, spread to the rest of England |
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