Story about the Black Death. Influence of the Black Death on survivors

1. The most terrible of all terrors
The survivors
Part 3

3. Wages and prices
Shortage of labourers
Statute of Labourers

4. More land

5. End of labour services

6. A better standard of living

7. Step 3
Finish your story about William Brewer and the
other survivors of the plague at Melton
Use the information in the section called „The
survivors“ to explain what happened to him and
the other peasants in the years after the Black
Death.

8. Thinking your enquiry through
How good is your historical story? Of course, it is made up. But if it
is a really good historical story, it will be based upon lots of facts
about the Black Death.
1. Take a red pen. Underline in red all the parts of your story which
are based upon facts about how horrible the disease was.
2. Take a green pen. Underline in green all the parts of your story
which are based on what medieval people thought about the
Black Death.
3. Take a black pen. Underline in black all the parts of the story
which are based upon the effects which the Black Death had
upon peasants and villages. For example, did William Brewer
become free? Was he able to escape the lord’s control?
Perhaps you found that you did not have very much to underline in
some of these colours. Now you know how to go back and make
your historical story even better.