Learn about The Black Death with Dan Snow

Recommendable! Among many other things, we learn that some drastic changes in climate during the 1346-53 period caused e.g. poor harvests and hunger. A number of positive societal changes are also mentioned, e.g. massive change in land ownership distribution, better jobs and pay for peasants and workers, more participation of women in the economy etc. However, also the expansion of government power may have also increased in the aftermath by government assuming increased responsibility for public health