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In a thought-provoking article Professor Bailey says the Black Death killed around half of the population of the known world and had a profound effect on the economy, with English GDP falling by 30 per cent between  1348 and 1350. “The changing behaviour of the disease was linked to a sustained period of extreme weather and major climate change, heightened level of global trade, and over-population and impoverishment. The book by Mark Bailey, Professor of Late Medieval History at the UEA: After the Black Death. - Credit: Mark Bailey “Sound familiar?” he asks. He writes in a way we can all understand and learn from, painting a vivid picture of what life was like in Norfolk and Suffolk as the Black Death spread through our communities.

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