Europe suffered a number of bubonic plaque epidemics from 1347 – 1750. The last major outbreak in England was in 1665-6 and killed about 100,000 people, 20% of London’s population at the time. It was already mainly over by the time of the Great Fire. (A rather extreme example of the definition of history: One damn thing after another.) On the burial register at St Olaves, Hart Street are the names of 365 plaque victims.
Historic UK have produced a map of London plague pits.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Great Plague
'The Uncommerical Traveller' was the name of articles that Dickens wrote for ...
Pioneer veterinary surgeon, Asian explorer. Born Lancashire. First Englishman to qualify as a vet, in France, during a revolution. He set up in practice in Oxford Street, creating a horse hosp...
Person, Animals, Exploring, Medicine, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Tibet, Uzbekistan
Born Oxfordshire. In Burma with the army he investigated cholera and dysentery.
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1893-1925. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Born south Wales. Pioneer psychoanalyst, follower of Sigmund Freud.
This is a big topic. The Army Museum has a good introduction at their page Independence and Partition, 1947: "The birth of India and Pakistan as independent states in 1947 was a key moment in the h...
Also known as the Kingsbury Hospital. In 1972 it was refurbished as the Kingsbury Community Hospital, a specialist resource for mentally handicapped people.
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