The Great Plague stalked England in 1665. It struck London particularly hard – by year's end, some 100,000 people had died terrible deaths. ... This website tells the story of the plague, explains the disease and displays its spread in London and the rest of England.
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Justin Champion answered questions about the Great Plague. Dr Champion is reader in the history of early modern ideas at the Department of History, Royal Holloway College, University of London. ... One of the most enduring and haunting images of the Great Plague is the beaked mask worn by the apothecaries.
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Great Plague of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Great Plague (1665-1666) was a massive outbreak of disease in England that killed an estimated 100,000 people, 20% of London's population. The disease is identified as bubonic plague, an infecti...
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At night the corpses were brought out in answer to the cry,' Bring out your dead', put in a cart and taken away to the plague pits. One called the Great Pit was at Aldgate in London and another at Finsbury Fields.
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List of historical plagues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In human history, the term plague refers to an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality, i.e. a pestilence. An epidemic—disease outbreaks that strike a large number of people in an area...
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The Great Plague of London (1664-1666) was an outbreak of bubonic plague that struck London and was particularly violent during the hot months of August and September of 1665. In one week, 7,165 people died of the plague.
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Information about the great plague 1665. ... Fire and Fever - Great Fire, Great Plague DVD ... Great Plague worksheet...
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Plague had been around in England for centuries but in 1665 the so-called Great Plague hit the country - though it was Stuart London that took the worst of the plague. ... Eyam and the Great Plague of 1665...
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The Great Fire of London of September 1666 was one of the most famous incidents in Stuart England. It was the second tragedy to hit the city in the space of 12 months. ... Just as the city was recovering from the Great Plague, the inhabitants had to flee the city once again – this time not as a result of a disease,
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