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Book A Collection of Very Valuable and Scarce Pieces Relating to the Last Plague in the Year 1665

Download or read book A Collection of Very Valuable and Scarce Pieces Relating to the Last Plague in the Year 1665 written by William Beckett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection of Very Valuable and Scarce Pieces Relating to the Last Plague in the Year 1665 is a fantastic overview of the Great Plague in London.

Book A Journal of the Plague Year

Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Daniel Defoe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death!' Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague of 1665 on the city of London. Defoe's fictional narrator, known only as 'H. F.', recounts in vivid detail the progress of the disease and the desperate attempts to contain it. He catalogues the rising death toll and the transformation of the city as its citizens flee and those who remain live in fear and despair. Above all it is the stories of appalling human suffering and grief that give Defoe's extraordinary fiction its compelling historical veracity. This revised edition includes comprehensive notes, a complete topographical index, and a new introduction to the greatest work of plague literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Catalogue of Autographs  Etc

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1012 pages

Download or read book Catalogue of Autographs Etc written by Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Books  Relating to British Topography  and Saxon and Northern Literature

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Relating to British Topography and Saxon and Northern Literature written by Bodleian Library and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remainder of the collection was sold in 1810.

Book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London instituted in the Year 1824

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London instituted in the Year 1824 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London Institude in the Year 1824

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London Institude in the Year 1824 written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    A    Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London  Instituted in the Year 1824 with an Alphabetical List of Authors Annexed

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London Instituted in the Year 1824 with an Alphabetical List of Authors Annexed written by City of London. Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Grenvilliana   Or Bibliographical Notices of Rare and Curious Books  Forming Part of the Library of Thomas Grenville

Download or read book Bibliotheca Grenvilliana Or Bibliographical Notices of Rare and Curious Books Forming Part of the Library of Thomas Grenville written by John Thomas Payne and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fatal Breath

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  • Author : David Vincent
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2023-09-11
  • ISBN : 1509551689
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book The Fatal Breath written by David Vincent and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fatal Breath is the first full-scale history of the Covid-19 pandemic in Britain. Deploying a rich archive of personal testimonies together with a wide range of research reports and official data, it presents a moving and challenging account of the crisis that enveloped Britain (and the world) in the spring of 2020. With sensitivity, care, and an historian’s critical eye, David Vincent places the pandemic in context. While much contemporary commentary has assumed people were forced to develop entirely new ways of living and working during lockdown, Vincent reveals how the population was able to draw upon a wealth of resources and coping strategies already seen over the centuries, often reacting far more quickly and effectively than slow-moving authorities. He tells the stories of doctors’ and nurses’ time on the frontlines, reveals the true extent of supply shortages, conspiracy theories, and vaccine resistance, and explores individuals’ newfound appreciation of nature and community in lockdown. The Fatal Breath will appeal to anyone seeking to reflect on the past few years and how the pandemic has changed Britain – for better and for worse.

Book A catalogue of the library of the corporation of     London

Download or read book A catalogue of the library of the corporation of London written by London corporation, libr and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library  Etc

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  • Author : Guildhall Library (London, England)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1859
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 678 pages

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library Etc written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Historical Sources of Defoe s Journal of the Plague Year

Download or read book The Historical Sources of Defoe s Journal of the Plague Year written by Watson Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Plague

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  • Author : A. Lloyd Moote
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2006-09-22
  • ISBN : 0801892309
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book The Great Plague written by A. Lloyd Moote and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.