PIRSA:08030000

The Great Plague of London

Earn, D. (2008). The Great Plague of London. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/08030000

Earn, David. The Great Plague of London. Perimeter Institute, Mar. 26, 2008, https://pirsa.org/08030000 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:08030000,
            doi = {10.48660/08030000},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/08030000},
            author = {Earn, David},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {The Great Plague of London},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2008},
            month = {mar},
            note = {PIRSA:08030000 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

David Earn McMaster University

DOI 10.48660/08030000
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series

Abstract

The Great Plague of London, which claimed the lives of one fifth of London\'s population in 1665, is one of the most famous epidemics of all time. We have recently digitized the mortality records for London during the Great Plague, yielding weekly data for each of the 130 parishes. I will describe the temporal and spatial dynamics of the plague, and discuss our efforts to estimate the transmissibility of the infectious agent. I will also briefly describe other projects in progress inspired by disease-specific mortality records for London over the past 650 years.