This is the story of a largely forgotten disaster that struck medieval Britain between 1315 and 1319. Overshadowed by the Black Death just a generation later, it rarely gets the attention it deserves. 1315 was an extraordinarily bad year. The real problem was… things just kept getting worse. The Disaster BEFORE the Black Death | 10:34 Paul Whitewick | 267K subscribers | 12,109 views | September 13, 2026