New Mapping The Dandy Plague Of London


It is estimated that inwards the Seventeenth Century the Great Plague of London killed off almost a quarter of the city's population.

One of the best accounts of the plague is Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. There is approximately fence equally to whether Defoe's Journal should live on read equally a move of fiction or non-fiction. The mass was originally published nether the initials H.F. in addition to many critics believe it was based on the journals of Defoe's uncle, Henry Defoe, amongst sparing invented especial from Daniel Defoe himself.

A “Frightful Number!” – Mapping Daniel Defoe’s H5N1 Journal of the Plague Year is an interactive map in addition to timeline of events depicted inwards Defoe's novel. The events inwards the new are plotted on summit of a vintage 1720 map of London.

You tin hand notice role the forwards in addition to dorsum arrows beneath the map to navigate chronologically through the plotted events from Defoe's Journal. The events are too listed chronologically beneath the map inwards tabular array format. The place links inwards the tabular array tin hand notice live on clicked on to thought them plotted on the map.

The projection includes an extensive 'About' page which details how the projection was created, including an explanation equally to how to geo-rectify vintage maps in addition to overlay them on a Leaflet map.


In the summertime of 1665 London experienced a huge ascent inwards the numbers of people dying from the Bubonic Plague. The Guardian has used historical information from the Bills of Mortality to nautical chart the progression of the plague parish past times parish over the course of teaching of the summer.

In Mapping London's Great Plague of 1665 the paper has created a point density map showing the issue of plague burials past times parish per week. Underneath the point map an interactive graph allows you lot to thought the issue of burials inwards full per week. You tin hand notice role the graph to select a calendar week to thought on the map.

When you lot select a calendar week on the graph the map updates to exhibit the issue of burials inwards each parish for that week. You tin hand notice mouse-over the private parishes on the map to thought the issue of burials inwards the parish for the week. Above the calendar month you lot tin hand notice too come across the full issue of plague burials inwards London for the selected week.


If you lot desire to read to a greater extent than source manus accounts of London's Great Plague thus you lot tin hand notice too consult the Diaries of Samuel Pepys. Phil Gyford's Pepys Diary is in all likelihood i of the longest running interactive mapping projects on the web. It is too i of the best 'book maps', where locations inwards a text induce got been plotted on an interactive map.

Every twenty-four hours Pepys Diary publishes an excerpt from the diaries (one taken from the same calendar date). All the locations inwards the diary entry are links, which when clicked on exhibit you lot the place on an interactive map of London. The site too includes a search facility which allows you lot to search for Pepys' diary entries which elevate the 'plague' or the 'Bills of Mortality'.
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