A Journal of the Plague Year
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1722 |
Genre | : Fires |
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Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1722 |
Genre | : Fires |
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Author | : Walter George Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Thomson, George.
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Fires |
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Author | : Stephen Porter |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445656868 |
The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the medieval Black Death of the 1340s to the Great Plagues of the seventeenth century.
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1863 |
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Author | : Samuel Pepys |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781789430998 |
Samuel Pepys gives a unique first hand account of life during the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London. Pepys stayed in London while many of the wealthy fled the city in the face of the plague. His careful observation and interest in the details of people's lives as well as the events of the time are unparalleled.
Author | : A. Lloyd Moote |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2006-09-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0801892309 |
An intimate portrait of the Great Plague of London. In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold descended on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet traced an arc in the sky, exciting much comment and portending "horrible windes and tempests." And in the remote, squalid precinct of St. Giles-in-the-Fields outside the city wall, Goodwoman Phillips was pronounced dead of the plague. Her house was locked up and the phrase "Lord Have Mercy On Us" was painted on the door in red. By the following Christmas, the pathogen that had felled Goodwoman Phillips would go on to kill nearly 100,000 people living in and around London—almost a third of those who did not flee. This epidemic had a devastating effect on the city's economy and social fabric, as well as on those who lived through it. Yet somehow the city continued to function and the activities of daily life went on. In The Great Plague, historian A. Lloyd Moote and microbiologist Dorothy C. Moote provide an engrossing and deeply informed account of this cataclysmic plague year. At once sweeping and intimate, their narrative takes readers from the palaces of the city's wealthiest citizens to the slums that housed the vast majority of London's inhabitants to the surrounding countryside with those who fled. The Mootes reveal that, even at the height of the plague, the city did not descend into chaos. Doctors, apothecaries, surgeons, and clergy remained in the city to care for the sick; parish and city officials confronted the crisis with all the legal tools at their disposal; and commerce continued even as businesses shut down. To portray life and death in and around London, the authors focus on the experiences of nine individuals—among them an apothecary serving a poor suburb, the rector of the city's wealthiest parish, a successful silk merchant who was also a city alderman, a country gentleman, and famous diarist Samuel Pepys. Through letters and diaries, the Mootes offer fresh interpretations of key issues in the history of the Great Plague: how different communities understood and experienced the disease; how medical, religious, and government bodies reacted; how well the social order held together; the economic and moral dilemmas people faced when debating whether to flee the city; and the nature of the material, social, and spiritual resources sustaining those who remained. Underscoring the human dimensions of the epidemic, Lloyd and Dorothy Moote dramatically recast the history of the Great Plague and offer a masterful portrait of a city and its inhabitants besieged by—and defiantly resisting—unimaginable horror.
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Author | : Stephen Porter |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848680872 |
Offers a narrative history of the Great Plague which struck England in 1665-66. This title is illustrated with over 80 contemporary images.
Author | : Miranda Kaufmann |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786071851 |
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England… They were present at some of the defining moments of the age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. The untold stories of the Black Tudors, dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann, will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history.