Mapping London’s great plague of 1665 | Society | The Guardian
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Mapping London’s great plague of 1665
Latest excavations show that even at the height of the plague year of 1665, Londoners buried their neighbours with respect for the bodies and beliefs of the dead. ‘Bills of mortality’ data from the Guildhall lets us chart the progress of that baleful summer parish by parish across the city
