Charterhouse Museum

From the Black Death to Henry VIII's break from Rome, a historic medieval refuge in the heart of London's throbbing financial centre is destined for a new lease of life -- by allowing women to move in.

Workers digging a new railway line in London have uncovered what they believe is a burial ground containing victims of the Black Death - a plague that wiped out as much as half of London's inhabitants when it swept the city in the mid-14th century.

From the Black Death to Henry VIII's break from Rome, a historic medieval refuge in the heart of London's throbbing financial centre is destined for a new lease of life -- by allowing women to move in.

Workers digging a new railway line in London have uncovered what they believe is a burial ground containing victims of the Black Death - a plague that wiped out as much as half of London's inhabitants when it swept the city in the mid-14th century.