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London, 1348. Eighty thousand people behind one square mile of walls. No lights after dark. No police. And the plague hadn't even arrived yet.

This reconstruction drops you into a single autumn night in medieval London — the streets after curfew, the firetraps passing for homes, and a sanitation system already poisoning the city from within. Long before the Black Death reached the capital, London's own infrastructure was quietly killing its people.

▸ The curfew bell that transformed the city into a different world after dark
▸ Why the city's night watch was laughably inadequate for 80,000 people
▸ What families actually breathed, ate, and slept beside every night
▸ The Thames as both drinking water and open sewer
▸ How seeking refuge in churches may have sealed thousands of fates
▸ What the mass graves at East Smithfield revealed centuries later

Edward's Reconstructions rebuilds historical life as it was actually lived — immersing you in worlds like medieval London through the sounds, the smells, and the systems that shaped ordinary survival.

If you lived in London in 1348 and heard the plague was approaching, would you have stayed or tried to flee — knowing the roads led to towns already dying?

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