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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.
Guildhall Library and Art Gallery
http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Has some 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) £7.95
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, 2000) £12.99
Well-illustrated account of the Great Plague. Porter also describes the
impact of earlier outbreaks that swept across Europe in the previous three
centuries.
The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England by Paul Slack
(Clarendon, 1990) £17.99
A scholarly but vivid and detailed account of the deadly effects of plague
on English society.
Biology of Plagues by Christopher Duncan and Susan Scott (Cambridge
University Press, 2001) £65
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.
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (Penguin, 1970) £4.99
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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