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Books on: plague of london

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The Remains of Edmund Grindal: Successively Bishop of London and Archbishop of York and Canterbury

Book by William Nicholson; 1843

Subjects:

Church Of England, Ferdinand--I--Holy Roman Emperor--1503-1564, Plague--London, 1563, Theology--16th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...SUCCESSIVELY BISHOP OF LONDON, AND ARCHBISHOP OF YORK AND CANTERBURY...Occasional Services for the Plague 75...following year, 1563, the plague broke out with great...and soon extended to London, and other places of the realm. This severe...
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A Survey of London - Vol. 1

Book by John Stow; Clarendon Press, 1971

Subjects:

London (England)--Description And Travel, London (England)--History--16th Century--Sources, London (England)--Surveys

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of which a later edition, published at London by Tottell in 1561, was long regarded as the first edition of Stow Summary . 2 In the Preface...were taken from the Tower for fear of the plague in Sept. 1563, certain prechers prechyd...
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The Government and Misgovernment of London

Book by William A. Robson; G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1939

Subjects:

London (England)--Politics And Government

Collections: Entire Library

...visitation of the plague in 1665 and the great...Petty gave the figure of 696,000 for the area...this time, however, London superseded Paris...administering new services in London. Thus, the fire brigade...1866, the inspection of the gas supply in...suppression of cattle plague, the right to protect...
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Doing the Business: Entrepreneurship, the Working Class, and Detectives in the East End of London

Book by Dick Hobbs; Clarendon Press, 1988

Subjects:

Crime--England--London, Detectives--England--London, East End (London, England)--Social Conditions, Entrepreneurship--England--London, Social Classes--England--London, Working Class--England--London

Collections: History, Entire Library

In this controversial and original study of policing, class relations and organizations, Hobbs illustrates the culture of London's East End and its relationship with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. Both the East Enders and the Metropolitan Police are considered in ...
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In this controversial and original study of policing, class relations and organizations, Hobbs illustrates the culture of London's East End and its relationship with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. Both the East Enders and the Metropolitan Police are considered in terms of their relationship with the marketplace and the emergent strategies of negotiation, trading, and entrepreneurship.
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Rebuilding St. Paul's after the Great Fire of London

Book by Jane Lang; Oxford University Press, 1956

Subjects:

St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England), Wren, Christopher--Sir--1632-1723

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...broken now and then by the dismal tolling of some church bell. It was the summer of 1665; London lay prostrate beneath the worst epidemic of bubonic plague ever known in her history. When at last active life was resumed at St. Pauls, the former...

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Journal Articles on: plague of london

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Novel Streets: The Rebuilding of London and Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year

Journal article by Cynthia Wall; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 30, 1998

Subjects:

A Journal of the Plague Year (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cities and towns--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Defoe, Daniel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., London, England--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...rebuilding of London and Defoes A Journal of the Plague Year...Flanders, the London place names in A Journal of the Plague Year are not...as A Journal of the Plague Year helped rewrite a "modern" London into being...
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The Language of Urbanization in John Stow's: Survey of London

Journal article by Rachel Ramsey; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 85, 2006

Subjects:

A Survey of London (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Works, London, England--History, London, England--Portrayals, Stow, John--Criticism and interpretation, Stow, John--Works, Urbanization--Portrayals

Collections: Entire Library

...Stows: Survey of London. by Rachel...high inflation, plague outbreaks, and...houses fueled Londons population expansion...the spread of plague and fire, and...the threat of plague, fire, and political...relationship between Londons changing socioeconomic...
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The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman

Journal article by S.P. Cerasano; Shakespeare Studies, 2002

Subjects:

The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman (Book)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Physician Evolves," and chapter 3, "Formans London Practice") that culminate in a shorter discussion of "Troubles with the College of Physicians...treatises that Forman copied for his own use (on plague, for instance) and sifts through his commentaries...
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The Plague of Utopias: Pestilence and the Apocalyptic Body

Journal article by Elana Gomel; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, 2000

Subjects:

Apocalyptic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Epidemics--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Plague in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...one of the inhabitants of plague-ridden London, of course, he is in mortal...Red Death, the violence of Jack Londons The Scarlet Plague, and the pervasive allegorical...Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. 1722. London: Penguin, 1986. Dellamora...
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Citizen History: Stow's 'Survey of London

Journal article by Edward T. Bonahue Jr.; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 38, 1998

Subjects:

London, England--Bibliography, Stow, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...supply, and frequent revisitations of the plague were all too obvious. Such public dilemmas...sermonizers and polemicists suspicious of urban decay, corruption, and avarice. Citing...demographic problems, many historians view Londons dominant social paradigm as one of continual...

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Magazine Articles on: plague of london

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Is Boris Faking It? the Makeover of a Candidate: A New, Serious Boris Johnson Is Now Being Offered to the Voters of London-Thanks to the Heavy Stage-Direction of Tory Party Minders

Magazine article by Brian Cathcart; New Statesman, Vol. 137, March 31, 2008

Subjects:

Boris, Johnson--Political activity, London, England--Elections, Mayors--Elections, Politicians--Political activity

Collections: Entire Library

...close to Johnson he was treated with the sort of suspicious horror usually reserved for plague-carriers--and he was writing for a Tory paper...off his critics, notably Andrew Gilligan at the London Evening Standard, our own Martin Bright, and...
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A Plague of Scandals

Magazine article by James Bowman; New Criterion, Vol. 24, April 2006

Subjects:

Communications industry--Evaluation, Communications industry--Services, Mass media--Evaluation, Mass media--Services, President of the United States--Media coverage, Scandals--Forecasts and trends, Scandals--Media coverage

Collections: Entire Library

A Plague of Scandals. by James...in 1963, the Times of London noted that at first the...means to be "scandal-plagued." The kind of restraint that once kept...and partly as a result of its effecting what the London Evening Standard called...
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I Am Struck Down by a Plague of Boils, but Saved by a Free Health Service

Magazine article by Darcus Howe; New Statesman, Vol. 132, January 13, 2003

Subjects:

Hospitals--Evaluation, Patients--Personal narratives, Socialized medicine--Personal narratives

Collections: Entire Library

I Am Struck Down by a Plague of Boils, but Saved by a Free Health Service. by Darcus Howe...immediately. Mrs Howe, who works in middle management at a hospital in London, confirmed that the pre-operative procedures were fine. Within half...
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Moral Rorschachs: '1984' and 'The Plague' after Half a Century

Magazine article by David L. Kirp, Andrew Koehler, Jaime Rossi; The Nation, Vol. 266, May 4, 1998

Subjects:

1984 (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, The Plague (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...over mass contagion, by the time the book appeared. Camus revives the image, and our sense of plague as threat now comes not from tales of medieval London but from his novel. The imagery has often been used to represent a fearsome intrusion, the uninvited...
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London's Mascot Rodent: Since the Great Plague, Rats Have Played a Prominent Role in the Life of the Capital

Magazine article by Stephen Smith; New Statesman, Vol. 131, July 15, 2002

Subjects:

London, England--Natural history, Rat control--History, Sewer systems--England

Collections: Entire Library

Londons mascot rodent...the Great Plague, rats have...in the life of the capital...biggest event in Londons history was...Classic edition of Daniel Defoes Journal of the Plague Year is prefaced...the Great Plague, but goes...The spread of the epidemic...and panned Londons noisome 19th-century...

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Newspaper Articles on: plague of london

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Plague of Rats; after Mink Were Culled to Save Wild Birdlife, the Rodents Are Swarming All over Islands

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 30, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Plague of Rats; after Mink Were Culled to Save Wild...unexpected, and unwanted, sideeffect - a plague of rats. Now the Western Isles are being overrun...South Harris - are complaining that a plague of rats has arrived with the departure of the...
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Bowled over by Rabbits; Club in Despair as Plague of Burrowing Bunnies Ruins the Greens

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 8, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...over by Rabbits; Club in Despair as Plague of Burrowing Bunnies Ruins the Greens...reduced to a disaster area - by a plague of rabbits. The small, furry pests have made a mockery of the municipal might of Perth and Kinross...
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Operations Axed as Plague of Flies Invades Hospital

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 9, 2007

Subjects:

Hospitals

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...cancelled and sick patients moved after a plague offlies hit a hospital which installed...visitor saw flies crawl into the mouth of an elderly Alzheimers patientand mothers...disgusting. Miss Murphy, 37, fromBarking, East London, added: Its worse than a hospital in a...
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Plague of the Bin Pests

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 3, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Plague of the Bin Pests. Byline: Steve Doughty IF...close forcomfort as well. In fact the number of pests plaguing homeowners has gone up by more...visitorscoincides rather neatly with the introduction of fortnightly rubbishcollections in half the country...
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America's Plague of Precocious Brats

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 7, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Americas Plague of Precocious Brats. Byline: VICKY...to Tokyo, Hong Kong,China, Munich and London in the space of 14 days. He felt like hed travelledenough...are now comprisingone-quarter per cent of the high-end market in hair salons across...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: plague of london

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Plague

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and in less than 20 years is estimated to have killed three quarters of the population of Europe and Asia. The great plague of London in 1665 is recorded in many works of literature. Quarantine measures helped contain the disease, but serious epidemics...
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London , City, England

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...culminating in the English civil war. In 1665, the great plague took some 75,000 lives. A great fire in Sept., 1666...Martin-in-the-Fields (18th cent.), and Westminster Cathedral. Much of the business of London as well as literary and political discussion was transacted...
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Charles II , King of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...which contributed to the outbreak (1664) of the second of the Dutch Wars . While the war was being waged, London suffered the great plague of 1665 and the fire of 1666. Clarendon fell from power in 1667, the year the war ended, to be replaced by...
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Monck, George, 1st Duke of Albemarle

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1666 he shared with Prince Rupert command of the fleet in the second Dutch War. He was left in charge of London at the time of the great plague (1665) and the great fire (1666). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...
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Tyler, Wat

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...had its origins in the plague of 1348 49, which had swept...Canterbury and then proceeded to London, their number increasing...rebels captured the Tower of London and killed the archbishop...of blows with the mayor of London, Tyler was mortally wounded...

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