: Stephen Porter
: Great Plague
: Amberley Publishing
: 9781445612195
: 1
: CHF 8.10
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: Geschichte
: 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.