What Was Life Actually Like During The Great Plague Of London? | The World History Channel

Very well done. Thank you.

Maybe they shouldn't have murdered innocent dogs and cats...

Humans are the plague.

This is fabulously produced, edited and scripted.

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Who the hell thought it was a clever idea to have one of the narrators deliver her commentary from up high on a ruddy church pulpit?
Peculiar doesn't come close to describing its bizarreness.

"Among the poor, some believed it was the hand of God". Are you kidding? ALL THE PREACHERS/ PRIESTS and practically all the public firmly believed it

That’s what happens when you kill the innocent dogs and cats.

When they shut up a house because of plague, they put the notice “Lord Have Mercy Upon Us” on the door. The documentary overlooked this detail.

Even as they were bracing themselves for plague, they had no idea it would be the worst plague epidemic London had ever seen. 😮

This is one of my favorite documentaries. I've watched it dozens of times. It's great to fall asleep to.

"The summer of 1665 was unbearably hot. Temperatures soared to a hellish 70 degrees Fahrenheit. "😏

I read a bunch of science articles and watched various videos some time ago that claim to dispel the rat/flea theory of how the plague spread. But I don’t see this discussed anymore.
Regardless, the rats and fleas spreading the plague is a theory, not a fact. It is clearly still the most widely accepted theory, but nonetheless still just theory.

Real life straight out of an Edgar Allen Poe nightmare. Terrifying.

Hygiene and cleanliness was almost non existent back there. Disposal of human waste was next to nothing. People had animals in their houses whose floors had hay and reeds probably full of vermin and food debris. Not surprising.

Did some of those people get buried alive?

Grim

Couldn't watch, the narrator is abominable.

And 450 years later, our government once again shut people up for "the plague". We were told where we could go and when. What we had to do and the "medicine" we had to take. Yet, they didn't force it on anyone. 🙄 But rather than physically locking you in your house, they did it by making private parties do their dirty work. So thousands of companies could now actually fire you from your position for refusing to take an unproven and improperly tested shot. You were denied entry into society if you refused to wear a compleatly fucking useless facemask. And if you didn't buy all the bullshit, you were canceled. You would lose your job, you could not participate in society and even your family and friends would call you selfish for not following orders. And then there are those of us that told everyone to go eat a Bag O' Dicks.

The ones who refused a mask, the ones who lost their jobs because they refused to let government or society to tell them what medicines to take or what to where and say, the ones who put up with completely unwarranted ridicule and disrespect. The ones who were proven correct since the very begining. I will NEVER forget how completely fucking mental society and government got, all over the world for a man-made disease with a 99.4% survival rate. How we the people were stolen from daily to pay for bullshit medicine that made things worse and to line the pockets of drug companies and their CEO's and the encorangement for doctors and hospitals to lie on death certificates to collect that big check from the government because they had reported yet another Covid death, something with that 99.4% survival rate.

I will never forget any of it nor will I ever forgive those who participated in the bullshit and even committed felonies all for money. You make me absolutely sick. And I am not the only one. So, if you are looking for forgiveness, you are gonna have to wait to get to heaven and then beg God to do it cause you ain't getting it here.

That was eye opening! Real good!

What a terrible time to exist

The rats were not what spread the plague. It was human fleas and body lice.

What's funny is we probably giggle when we think that ancient and medieval people thought comets brought disease....AND THEN we discovered lithopanspermia and space/meteor viruses.....who's laughing now, eh??

It's comforting to know the human bent to abdicate responsibility by the rich and privy has not changed. Covid was a very good example of that.

this is too disgusting to sit and watch. nasty bodily noises are gross.

Im shocked we are even here today...those people were so gross its hard to understand anyone wanting to get physical with another without throwing up....not that they had much of a choice...but god they were disgusting.....

Lmao "and California" 😂 shocking! Not.

If you live in the country and have pets it is scary to see a rodent-like animal scurrying in the yard or in the basement.

It makes NO sense logically OR economically to say “The people of Cock and Key Alley were pretty low down on the social scale, but they weren’t the sort of *BASE FROTH.*
First of all, if we think logically about the metaphor being used, the “base” is the “foundation” upon which everything else is built. Since the historian is using “beer” as a metaphor for the structure of seventeenth-century London society, the “base” of beer would be water, barley, yeast, and hops. It strikes me that the average city citizens of Cock and Key Alley are the base of English society at the time: the vast majority of English folk of this period were of this social class, and their labour and taxes are what “held up” all the other social classes, or “parts of the beer.”
A beer’s “froth” is not *essential*, as it doesn’t contribute to the body or taste of the beer, yet it is a somewhat “special treat” sitting on top of the structure of the beer. The metaphorical referent of “froth”, therefore—-at least insofar as economics are concerned—-are the “surplus” leisured classes, the gentry, nobility, and royalty. They neither labour nor contribute any kind of “product” to the structure of society other than “beautiful spectacle,” much as the froth does for a beer.

The poor metaphorically challenged historian trying so hard to sound sophisticated should have said “The people of Cock and Key Alley were pretty low on the social scale, but they were not quite the *DREGS.* The “dregs” of a beer are the useless, foul-tasting “leftovers” at the bottom of the mug that one throws out——according to this silly historian’s tortured metaphor, these would be the unemployed, homeless vagrants and beggars. These would be the “dregs of the beer we call society.”

Dogs and cats got their revenge... stupid and uneducated.... like so many today...

in 1347 to 1351 I think the saddest thing is the people turned to the ones associated with the man (POPE) at time was the main reason it was so bad as just before it started the cat hating Pope had all cats killed as witches pets or devil's pets that led to the mass boom of rats that in turn got infected the fleas I am not saying the plague would of never happened if that Pope never went on his mass cat killing spree but it would of not wiped out 60% of Europe and during this one the made same mistake killing all the rat killers

Its nice to know that politicans have not changed, they still flee when things get bad!

I love how we assume people before present day just walk around their entire life covered in mud.

So, what's changed? Recent history seems like a repeat. Guess we haven't learned much in 300 years.

Kill animal for any disease here or over there and watch your children die first Love the Cat

Listening about the ‘shutting up policy’ is this where the phrase shut up comes from? Shut someone up >silence

The black dead change the course of history.ended the middle ages. .

brilliantly acted!

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We live in privileged times and don't appreciate it. I think our ancestors were made of stronger stuff than our generation.

One minor complaint on an otherwise excellant documentary. Excavations of several plague pits show that even at the worst height of the epidemic victims were given the best attempt at Christian burial as possible. Pits were dug in alignment East to west and the bodies weren't just dumped in. They were placed in lines. Christian belief was incredibly strong back then and the idea of just dumping bodies in a hole was unthinkable because a proper burial was one of the necessities for getting in to heaven

Beautifully done! But all those clean shaven men and their short hair!

Killing dogs and cats, I just turned this video. I'm done when u go killing dogs and cats. I'm done. I love animals it was coming from rats

The true human cost of the Plagues was that the Europeans spread their diseases and way of life all over the world to the detriment of every other population.

I feel pity of the dogs and cat killed.....maybe the plague is the karma to them since they killed the poor animals

someday, people will look back at covid's effect on the world and call us foolish, superstitious, uneducated, lacking in medical knowledge.