1346AD – 1350AD
Obviously not a make-up and hair “look”, but I included this era because why not!
The bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic plague came to England from Asia, Africa and Europe via the trading ships. The Black Death struck London in the Autumn of 1348 and killed half of the people living there. Altogether it is thought that The Black Death killed about 20 million people within those 4 years.
It came to London again as ‘The Great Plague’ in 1563 and killed 100,000 people within seven months.
Symptoms included fever, delirious, chills, vomiting blood, diarrhoea, blisters, black patches on the skin, gangrene, bruises, swells in the lymph nodes (buboes) usually the size of an apple or an egg. The black coloured swellings would ooze blood and pus.
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