A street during the plague in London

Plague and Protest Go Hand in Hand

Scholars of early modern England have shown how plague and protest are often correlated. The Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, for example.
A row of blurry houses lit from within

Do We Have to Tell Them the House Is Haunted?

On the law and mythologies of haunting, from antiquity to today.