A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year PDF Author: Daniel Defoe
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Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year PDF Author: Daniel Defoe
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Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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History of the Plague in London, 1665

History of the Plague in London, 1665 PDF Author: Daniel Defoe
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Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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My Story: The Great Plague (reloaded look)

My Story: The Great Plague (reloaded look) PDF Author: Pamela Oldfield
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 0702303054
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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The Great Plague is a thrilling story of a young girl during the epidemic of 1665. It's 1665, and Alice is looking forward to being back in London. But the plague is spreading quickly, and as each day passes more red crosses appear on doors. When her aunt is struck down with the plague, she is forced to make a decision that could change her life forever... Alice's chilling diary brings alive one of the darkest moments in British history: the Great Plague of 1665-1666. Experience history first-hand with My Story in this all-new look!

The Great Plague in London in 1665

The Great Plague in London in 1665 PDF Author: Walter George Bell
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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History of the Plague of London. (1665)

History of the Plague of London. (1665) PDF Author: Daniel Defoe
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Category : Defoe, Daniel
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Black Death

Black Death PDF Author: Stephen Porter
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445656868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591

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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.

The Great Plague

The Great Plague PDF Author: A. Lloyd Moote
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801892309
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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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.

History of the Plague of London 1665

History of the Plague of London 1665 PDF Author: Daniel Defoe
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Category : Plague
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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My Story: The Great Plague

My Story: The Great Plague PDF Author: Pamela Oldfield
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407132911
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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A time of horror has come to London. In one terrible summer, more than 15% of its population will perish. As the bubonic plague ravages London's streets, mercilessly plucking up victims and filling the plague pits with corpses, 13-year-old Alice Paynton records the outbreak in her diary. "It seems that in the past week 700 people have died of the plague. So the plague has well and truly come to London... One of the houses in the next street had a red cross painted on the door. Above the cross someone had chalked Lord Have Mercy Upon Us." Alice's chilling diary brings alive one of the darkest moments in British history: the Great Plague of 1665-1666.

Plague: Outbreak in London, 1665 - 1666

Plague: Outbreak in London, 1665 - 1666 PDF Author: Tony Bradman
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407184172
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Languages : en
Pages : 128

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London is in the grip of a terrible plague and Daniel has been locked in his own home, doomed to die alongside his infected family. Can he find a way to escape before he catches the disease, too? And with the streets full of criminals and corrupt plague doctors, who can he turn to if he does? A thrilling story about a young boy's fight to stay alive during one of history's deadliest epidemics.