Great Plague
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Stephen Porter
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Great Plague
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Amberley Publishing
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9781445612195
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1
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CHF 8.10
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Geschichte
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English
The bubonic plague epidemic which struck England in 1665-6 was responsible for the deaths of almost a third of London's population. Its sheer scale was overwhelming and it was well-recorded, featuring in the works of Pepys and Defoe and described in terrible detail in the contemporary Bills of Mortality.