1665: London's last great plague - a video lecture

The mid-1660s plague outbreak in London is often conflated with the 1666 Great Fire in the public imagination, as well as in more than a few history books too. Here's a rather fine lecture on the 1665 outbreak, from Vanessa Harding of Gresham College:

The Prospect of the City, my 1666-set novel,is available here.

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Published on June 02, 2016 07:12
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