OPINION - Crypt by Alice Roberts review: An addictive picture of medieval Britain from a cutting-edge perspective
by Robbie Smith
Mar 01, 2024
2 minutes
The past was not a good place to die in Britain. Frightening diseases that are essentially vanquished in modern times were rife, deadly, and untreatable. Think syphilis, leprosy and the Black Death. Then there was the endemic violence. Readers of Alice Roberts’s Crypt, the
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