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John Adams was certain he made a mistake by going to church. Philadelphia’s yellow fever outbreak only ended in November 1793. On Sunday, December... The post Yellow Fever and Church Attendance appeared first on Journal of the American Revolution.
Two panels from a contemporary broadsheet (1665/6) showing the work of the Searchers who collected the cause of death data for the Bills of Mortality: in the lefthand panel they are present in a house afflicted by plague, while in the righthand panel...
Outlander, Season 3 (2017).Follower Justin Anderson e-mailed me a short time ago with a specific request:I'm curious if you have any insights into the origins of the idea that burial shrouds had a final stitch which passed through the nose? I see you...
“Racialising Mortality in Early Visual Culture and the Shakespearean Stage” by Dr Farah Karim-Cooper . Tuesday 3rd December 2019, at 5pm, in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin As part of the Whitfield...
Death was ever present in the minds of people of the eighteenth century, and the dangers of the sea made it especially so among seamen. Much has been written on eighteenth-century funerary practices afloat and ashore. Burial at sea has featured prominently...
Detail from Admiral Hosier's Ghost, Charles Mosley, 1740, John Carter Brown Library.Today I'm taking a very quick look at what historians have to say about mortality rates among common sailors.The actual occurrence of death at sea was not uncommon, but...
December 28 O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! (2.2.527) “I think I’m going to switch back to beer,” I announced, not they cared. My wife, brother, and I were chatting after our Christmas dinner, observed. In the fridge, there...
With a jaunty jump, I burst into the bedroom, my arms theatrically outspread: “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.” My wife looked up from her iPad, startled. She was enjoying a lazy Sunday morning in bed. I had just finished Macbeth. “Tomorrow,...
While few died in the making of this blank area on the map of London, many more were killed filling it in again. “How many people were killed by the Great Fire of London?” A question often asked and on the occasion of the 350th anniversary...
March was a big month for me – my first monograph, Beyond Melancholy, came out with Oxford University Press. The book focuses on the different ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood and thought about sadness,...
Yet sighs, dear sighs, indeed true friends you are, That do not leave your least friend at the worst; But as you with my breast I oft have nursed, So grateful now you wait upon my care. Faint coward joy no longer tarry dare, Seeing hope yield when...
Last month I wrote the following post for Oxford University Press’s blog, as part of the launch of the New Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. I’m very pleased to re-share it here as part of DigitalShakespeares. Black Cuillin by Graham Lewis....
Over the course of this morning, thousands of people will gather in Leicester for the re-interment of the bones of Richard III. Many more – hundreds of thousands certainly – will watch proceedings on TV as Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury,...
A recent BBC news article made me think it high time to revive my blog, which has remained inactive since last summer due in part to me taking up a Wellcome Trust-funded doctoral post in the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter last...
Arms granted to John Allen in 1779 and matriculated to Henry Howard Allen in 1878
(Crown Copyright) Courtesy of Jonathan Allan
It has been some time since I last uploaded a family tree, and last week I added an extended and updated version of the Allen...
Bad winter weather with bitter cold and thick fogs spread across London during January 1730. As a result there were several sudden deaths and accidental injuries. The Bill of Mortality for the week commencing 6 January shows only two sudden deaths: a...
Book Review
Hello, my name is Edwyna, and I am a new Library and Archive Volunteer. I hope you find this month’s Book Review interesting. In order to cater for a wide range of tastes, this choice will hopefully be diverse enough in its attempt...
A late 18th Century embroidered mourning scene for a young child worked on an ivory silk ground. The stylized scene includes a central tombstone with the inscription written in ink on silk: ‘In memory of Mifs Betsey Thomson who died Jun 29 1794...
Of course, the parrot wasn’t the only one dying in London in 1728. The newspapers published a summary mortality table at the end of the year, in fact, in the case of the Ipswich Journal, the same page as that recording the unfortunate decease of...
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