Eyam: The Village That Chose to Die

<p>When plague arrived in a Derbyshire village in sixteen sixty-five, the people of Eyam could have run. Instead, they sealed themselves in — locking the gates, burying their own dead in their own fields, and accepting that many of them would die, so that the surrounding villages might live.</p><p>Around a third of them did die. August Mercer tells one of the most extraordinary acts of collective sacrifice in human history — and the woman who buried her husband and six children in eight days, alone. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p>