Thursday, May 21, 2020

‘Great fears of the sickenesse here in the City’

Image credit: Wellcome Library
In the summer of 1665  bubonic plague had taken the lives of almost 69,000 people, although the true figure was probably nearer 100,000 – almost a quarter of London’s population. Samuel Pepys’s diaries provide a fascinating insight into how Londoners dealt with the tragedy.

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