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Tag: Ben Gummer The Scourging Angel

What can we learn from the Black Death? Be prepared, trust entrepreneurs, and have faith

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Can we learn from history? An excellent book by Ben Gummer on the Black Death in fourteenth century Britain, The Scourging Angel, shows that we can. Published 10 years ago, the book offers many intriguing parallels with the Covid-19 crisis. Of course, the Black Death was almost incomprehensibly more lethal.  Around 50 per cent of […]

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