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Miss RHODA POWER: Boys and Oirls of the Middle Ages'

on 5XX Daventry

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IN the middle of the fourteenth century
.England was ravaged by a pestilence so deadly that chroniclers called it ' The Black Death.' Men died like flies, and generations passed before the effects of the scourge ceased to be felt.- In her talk this afternoon Miss Rhoda Power will describe the history of the plague from tho time when it broke out during the siege of a city in the Crimea, to tho time when it struck England in the summer of 1348.

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