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Websites
Epidemic disease in London – J Champion
www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/cmh/epichamp.html#22
Article by Justin Champion (see the interview
with him and the questions he has answered in 'Ask
the experts') explaining how the social status of victims of the Great
Plague can be gleaned from the parish accounts of Henry Dorsett, churchwarden
of St Dunstan. These accounts formed the basis of the Channel 4 programme.
The Great Plague 1665
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/
England-History/GreatPlague.htm
An essay on the outbreak of the Great Plague in 1665.
Pictures of the Plague
www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Graunt/pictures/pictures.html
Evocative 17th-century images of the Great Plague.
Eyam Museum
www.cressbrook.co.uk/eyam/museum/
Reconstruction of Eyam, the Derbyshire
village where hundreds of people died of the plague.
Books
London's Dreaded Visitation: The social geography of the Great Plague
in 1665 by Justin Champion (Historical Geography Research/Series
35, 1995). Out of print; may be available from libraries or second-hand
bookshops.
Champion applies computer-assisted techniques to explore the complex relationship
between death, class and location in the City of London during the plague. This
analysis challenges the commonplace assumption that 'plague' simply affected
the poor and undermines historical confidence in identifying the disease as 'bubonic
plague'.
The Great Plague by Stephen Porter (Sutton, 2003)
Well-illustrated account of the Great Plague. Porter also describes the impact
of earlier outbreaks that swept across Europe in the previous three centuries.
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The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England by Paul Slack
(Clarendon, 1990)
A scholarly but vivid and detailed account of the deadly effects of plague
on English society.
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 Biology of Plagues: Evidence from historical populations by
Christopher J Duncan and Susan Scott (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Controversial and scholarly account that suggests that the catastrophic outbreaks
of bubonic plague in Europe from the 1300s to 1665 were not due to flea/rat
transmission but were caused by a virus.
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 A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (Penguin, 1970)
Defoe's vivid account of the Great Plague of London in 1665 has been discounted
in recent years as it became known as a complete work of fiction, based on various
17th-century plague tracts republished during a plague scare in 1720-1. However,
the historian Paul Slack says that, while it should not be used as a source for
the events of 1665, Defoe's account represents a watershed in historical understanding
of the issues and social realities of the plague experience.
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