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Plague Fire The Story Of The Great Pestilence Of 1665 And Of The Fire Of London In 1666
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Download or read book 1666 written by Rebecca Rideal and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph. Based on original archival research and drawing on little-known sources, 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire takes readers on a thrilling journey through a crucial turning point in English history, as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary cast of historical characters. While the central events of this significant year were ones of devastation and defeat, 1666 also offers a glimpse of the incredible scientific and artistic progress being made at that time, from Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity to Robert Hooke's microscopic wonders. It was in this year that John Milton completed Paradise Lost, Frances Stewart posed for the now-iconic image of Britannia, and a young architect named Christopher Wren proposed a plan for a new London - a stone phoenix to rise from the charred ashes of the old city. With flair and style, 1666 shows a city and a country on the cusp of modernity, and a series of events that forever altered the course of history.
Book Synopsis A Journal of the Plague Year by : Daniel Defoe
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Plague written by Evelyn Lord and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Medieval times, the Black Death wiped out one-fifth of the world's population. Four centuries later, in 1665, the plague returned with a vengeance, cutting a long and deadly swathe through the British Isles. In this title, the author focuses on Cambridge, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community.
Book Synopsis Epochs and Episodes of History by : Ward, Lock & Co
Download or read book Epochs and Episodes of History written by Ward, Lock & Co and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Epochs and episodes of history by : Epochs
Download or read book Epochs and episodes of history written by Epochs and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Fire of London by : Neil Hanson
Download or read book The Great Fire of London written by Neil Hanson and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaim for The Great Fire of London "Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill." —Times Literary Supplement "The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson’s prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research." —The Daily Telegraph (London) "He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account." —The Sunday Times (London) "The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain." —Soho Independent "A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery." —The Brisbane News "A rollicking good yarn." —The Age (Melbourne) "Blends high-class original research with a narrative style that mimics fiction. . . . Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer." —New Zealand Herald "Neil Hanson’s descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo." —Camden New Journal "It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels–narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing." —Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)
Book Synopsis The library of national information and popular knowledge by : Ward, Lock and co, ltd
Download or read book The library of national information and popular knowledge written by Ward, Lock and co, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ward & Lock's penny books for the people. Historical series by : Ward, Lock and co, ltd
Download or read book Ward & Lock's penny books for the people. Historical series written by Ward, Lock and co, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of British India: To the union of the old and new companies under the Earl of Godolphin's award [1708 by : William Wilson Hunter
Download or read book A History of British India: To the union of the old and new companies under the Earl of Godolphin's award [1708 written by William Wilson Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Outlines of Mediæval and Modern History : a Textbook for High Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges by : Philip Van Ness Myers
Download or read book Outlines of Mediæval and Modern History : a Textbook for High Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges written by Philip Van Ness Myers and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Old London by : Stoneham, F. & E., Ltd., London
Download or read book Old London written by Stoneham, F. & E., Ltd., London and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Historical Documents by : Andrew Browning
Download or read book English Historical Documents written by Andrew Browning and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Historical Documents is the most ambitious, impressive and comprehensive collection of documents on English history ever published. An authoritative work of primary evidence, each volume presents material with exemplary scholarly accuracy. Editorial comment is directed towards making sources intelligible rather than drawing conclusions from them. Full account has been taken of modern textual criticism. A general introduction to each volume portrays the character of the period under review and critical bibliographies have been added to assist further investigation. Documents collected include treaties, personal letters, statutes, military dispatches, diaries, declarations, newspaper articles, government and cabinet proceedings, orders, acts, sermons, pamphlets, agricultural instructions, charters, grants, guild regulations and voting records. Volumes are furnished with lavish extra apparatus including genealogical tables, lists of officials, chronologies, diagrams, graphs and maps.
Book Synopsis The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge ... by : John Clark Ridpath
Download or read book The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge ... written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A General History for Colleges and High Schools by : Philip Van Ness Myers
Download or read book A General History for Colleges and High Schools written by Philip Van Ness Myers and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of England by : Charles Oman
Download or read book A History of England written by Charles Oman and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis General History for Colleges and High Schools by : P. V. N. Myers
Download or read book General History for Colleges and High Schools written by P. V. N. Myers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-17 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Black Death by : Joseph P. Byrne
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Black Death written by Joseph P. Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the four centuries of the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors. Encyclopedia of the Black Death is the first A–Z encyclopedia to cover the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors and effects in Europe and the Islamic world from 1347–1770. It also bookends the period with entries on Biblical plagues and the Plague of Justinian, as well as modern-era material regarding related topics, such as the work of Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, the Third Plague Pandemic of the mid-1800s, and plague in the United States. Unlike previous encyclopedic works about this subject that deal broadly with infectious disease and its social or historical contexts, including the author's own, this interdisciplinary work synthesizes much of the research on the plague and related medical history published in the last decade in accessible, compellingly written entries. Controversial subject areas such as whether "plague" was bubonic plague and the geographic source of plague are treated in a balanced and unbiased manner.
