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The Spring

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Artists Gustave Courbet
Locations Musée d'Orsay station
Created1868
Periods Realism
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Chris Mason: Ministers in new bid to reduce immigration

Chris Mason: Ministers in new bid to reduce immigration
Dec 4,2023 7:11 am

... The key question again when we step back from the detail on all this is just the same as with legal migration: How soon could this make a difference? Ministers say they are committed to getting migrants on planes to Rwanda by The Spring...

Retired teacher's hobby lands her RHS artist-in-residence role

Retired teacher's hobby lands her RHS artist-in-residence role
Dec 2,2023 8:41 pm

... Ms Buckley said while she was only just getting her head round winning, she had already started sketching cherry trees for The Spring 2024 issue of Plant Review...

RMT union votes to end rail strikes until at least spring

RMT union votes to end rail strikes until at least spring
Nov 30,2023 6:31 am

... It means that RMT members will no longer be involved in industrial action until at least The Spring of next year...

Scotch on the Rocks: The TV drama locked away for 50 years

Scotch on the Rocks: The TV drama locked away for 50 years
Nov 29,2023 7:11 pm

... It was shown in The Spring of 1973 and audience figures and reviews were generally good...

Does the Autumn Statement hint at spring election?

Does the Autumn Statement hint at spring election?
Nov 23,2023 12:41 am

... The general election campaign year will be under way - the campaign has to begin next year, even if the election itself is held at the latest possible date of January 2025 - and all the parties will think, behave and prepare as though the election will be in The Spring...

What the Autumn Statement means for you and your money

What the Autumn Statement means for you and your money
Nov 22,2023 9:11 am

... There is another payment for pensioners this winter, and one for low-income people on benefits in The Spring...

Black women most likely to die in medieval London plague

Black women most likely to die in medieval London plague
Nov 21,2023 2:21 am

... It arrived in London in the autumn of 1348 and lasted until The Spring of 1350...

Wales school summer holidays may be cut by a week

Wales school summer holidays may be cut by a week
Nov 20,2023 6:21 pm

... " I don t find it so bad in The Spring and the summer term but sometimes that winter term can be quite a slog...

Black women most likely to die in medieval London plague

Nov 17,2023 9:11 pm

Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at The Museum of London have found.

The study is The First archaeological exploration showing how racism influenced a person's risk of death during what was known as The Great Pestilence or Great Mortality.

The research is based on 145 individuals from three cemeteries.

The outbreak is believed to have claimed the lives of 35,000 Londoners.

Bodies from East Smithfield emergency plague cemetery, St Mary Graces and St Mary Spital formed the basis of the study.

The likelihood of dying from The Great Pestilence was highest amongst those who already faced significant hardship, including exposure to famines that hit England during This Time .

What was the medieval plague?

Often referred to today as the Black Death , the outbreak of 1348-1350 was a deadly Infectious Disease that swept across Asia and Europe, killing millions of people.

Modern scientific research has identified this as a plague pandemic but in the mid-1300s people had no idea what the disease was or How To stop it.

It arrived in London in the autumn of 1348 and lasted until The Spring of 1350.

More Than half the population of London died. Emergency cemeteries had to be Set Up to bury them.

The disease was carried by rats who had infected fleas, and also transmitted by droplet infection, such as people coughing on each other.

Symptoms included fever, fatigue, vomiting and buboes (large swellings).

The research concluded that higher death rates amongst people of colour and those of Black African descent was a result of the " devastating effects" of " premodern structural racism" in the medieval world.

Social and religious divisions based on origin, skin colour and appearance were present in both medieval England and Europe.

Dr Rebecca Redfern from The Museum of London, said: " We have no primary written sources from people of colour and those of Black African descent during The Great Pestilence of the 14Th Century , so archaeological research is essential to understanding more about their lives and experiences.

" As with the recent Covid-19 pandemic, social and economic environment played a significant role in people's health and this is most likely why we find more people of colour and those of Black African descent in plague burials. "

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