Want to know EXACTLY what you are getting when you read my new comedy disaster fantasy about the Great Plague of London? Look no further! Available now on Amazon! #historicalfantasy #tropes #greatplague #histfic #booksky
Where was Old London Bridge? Its my favourite historic location for my new comic fantasy novel Plague! Shadow of the Rat King about the undertaker who started the Great Plague of London to save his dying business! #londonhistory #historicalfantasy #17thcentury #greatplague #booksky
...I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and “Lord have mercy upon us” writ there...
📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 7 June 1665, #SamuelPepys records in his diary first seeing houses affected by the #GreatPlague of #London.
Pepys diary
#SamuelPepys was born #OnThisDay in 1533, to become the most famous diarist in the English language, recording his observations on the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 & the Great Fire of London in 1666; his observations on the #GreatPlague seem esp. relevant today:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...
Over 350 years after the #GreatPlague, is a way of dealing with the culprit finally in sight? #rats #biotech www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/20/man-...
