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Epidemic Disease in London: Bibliography

Part of the online series Epidemic Disease in London published by the Centre for Metropolitan History

This bibliography includes the published works cited in the papers above, and a selection of works on epidemics and disease in London from the Centre's Bibliography of Printed Works on London History

Alphabetical Index of Authors (titles used if author is unknown)

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I* | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q*| R | S | T | U | V* | W | X*| Y* | Z |

*(no entries)

  • 'Account of a grocer in Wood Street, Cheapside...during the Great Plague in 1665', Gentleman's Magazine, 95:1 (1825), pp. 311-16.
  • A collection of the yearly Bills of Mortality from 1657 to 1758 inclusive (London: printed for A. Millar in the Strand, 1759).
  • Abel-Smith, Brian. The hospitals 1800-1948; a study in social administration in England and Wales (London: Heinemann, 1964).
  • Ackerknecht, Erwin H. Medicine at the Paris Hospital, 1794-1848 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967).
  • Alister, Charles. 'On every side the plague', Greenwich and Lewisham Antiquarian Society Transactions, 8 (1973-4), pp. 32-7.
  • Alldridge, Nick (ed.). The Hearth Tax: problems and possibilities (Hull: Humberside Polytechnic, 1984).
  • Appleby, Andrew B. 'The disappearance of plague: a continuing puzzle', Economic History Review, 2nd series, 33 (1980), pp. 161-73.
  • Archer, Ian W. The pursuit of stability: social relations in Elizabethan England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
  • Balmford, J. A short dialogue concerning the plagues infection (London, 1603).
  • Bastian, F. 'Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year" reconsidered', Review of English Studies, new series, 16 (1965), pp. 151-73.
  • Bateman, Thomas. Reports on the diseases of London, and the state of the weather, from 1804 to 1816... preceded by a historical view of ... disease in the metropolis in past times. (London: Longman, 1819).
  • Bell, Walter George. Fleet Street in seven centuries (London: Pitman and Sons, 1912).
  • Bell, Walter George. 'Wardmote Inquest Registers of St Dunstan's in the West', London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions, new series, 3 (1914-17), pp. 56-70.
  • Bell, Walter George. The Great Plague in London in 1665. (1st edn. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924; revised edn. London: Bodley Head, 1951).
  • Bell, Walter George. The Great Plague: grim tragedy told in church's records of 1665 (The Chronicles of St. Bride's, No. 2; London: Guild of St Bride, 1958).
  • Boehrer, B. 'Early modern syphilis', Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1:2 (1990).
  • Boghurst, William. Loimographia: an account of the Great Plague of London in year 1665, ed. by Joseph Frank Payne (London: Shaw, 1894).
  • Boulton, Jeremy. Neighbourhood and society. A London suburb in the seventeenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
  • Bradley, Leslie. 'The geographical spread of plague' in The plague reconsidered: a new look at its origins and effects in 16th and 17th-century England (Local Population Studies Supplement, No. 4; Matlock: Local Population Studies, 1977).
  • Brothwell, D.R. Digging up bones: the excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains (3rd edn. London: British Museum (Natural History), 1981).
  • Brownlee, J. 'Certain aspects of the theory of epidemiology in special relation to plague', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine (Section of Epidemiology and State Medicine), 11 (1918), pp. 85-127.
  • Buer, M.C. Health, wealth, and population in the early days of the Industrial Revolution (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1926).
  • Bullein, William. A dialogue bothe pleasaunte and pietifull, wherein is a goodly regimente against the fever pestilence (London, 1576) [British Library c71 a35].
  • Bullock-Anderson, Joan, Clubb, Clare and Cox, Jacqueline (comps.) A guide to archives and manuscripts at Guildhall Library (London: Guildhall Library, 1989).
  • Burditt, J.E. 'Smallpox in Dagenham, 1871', Barking Record, 85 (1973), pp. 10- 12.
  • Burditt, J.E. 'A smallpox epidemic in Barking, 1901-2', Barking Record, 86 (1974), pp. 10-14.
  • Burnby, Juanita Gordon Lloyd, and Whittet, Thomas Douglas. Plague, pills and surgery: the story of the Bromfields (Edmonton Hundred Historical Society Occasional Papers, n.s., 31, 1975).
  • Bynum, William F. 'Cullen and the study of fevers in Britain, 1760-1820', in W.F. Bynum and V. Nutton (eds.), Theories of fever from antiquity to the Enlightenment (Medical History, Supplement No. 1; London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1981), pp. 135-148.
  • Bynum, William F. 'Hospital, disease and community: the London Fever Hospital, 1801- 1850' in Charles E. Rosenberg (ed.), Healing and history: essays for George Rosen (Folkestone and New York: Dawson Science History, 1979).
  • Caldin, Winifride, and Raine, Helen. 'The plague of 1625 and the story of John Boston, parish clerk of St Saviour's, Southwark', London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions, 23 (1971-2), pp. 90-9.
  • Caraman, Philip. Henry Morse: priest of the plague (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1957).
  • Carmichael, Ann G. Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
  • Champion, J.A.I. London's dreaded visitation. The social geography of the great plague of 1665 (Institute of British Geographers, Historical Geography Research Series No. 31, 1995).
  • Champion, J.A.I. 'Relational databases and the Great Plague in London 1665', History and Computing, 5:1 (1993, forthcoming).
  • Chave, S.P.W. 'Henry Whitehead and cholera in Broad Street', Medical History, 2 (1958), pp. 92-108.
  • Christie, J. (ed). Some account of the parish clerks (London: Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks, 1893).
  • Clapham, Henoch. An epistle discoursing upon the pestilence (London, 1603).
  • Cipolla, Carlo M. Cristofano and the plague, a study in the history of public health in the age of Galileo (London: Collins, 1973).
  • Clippingdale, S.D. 'A medical roll of honour: physicians and surgeons who remained in London during the Great Plague', British Medical Journal, 1 (1909), pp. 351-3.
  • Cool, Jacob. Den staet van Londen in hare groote peste, with an introduction by J.A. van Dorsten and K. Schaap (Leiden: Brill, 1962). [Facsimile of contemporary account of plague of 1603 by Dutch merchant living in London.]
  • Cooper, William Durant. 'Notices of the last Great Plague, 1665-6; from the letters of John Allin to Philip Fryth and Samuel Jeake', Archaeologia, 37 (1857), pp. 1- 22.
  • Cotta, John. A short discoverie of the unobserved dangers of severall sorts of ignorant and unconsiderate practisers of physicke in England (London: William Jones and R. Boyle, 1612).
  • Cox, M.J., Molleson, T.I., and Waldron, T. 'Preconception and perception: the lessons of a 19th century suicide', Journal of Archaeological Science, 17 (1990), pp. 573- 81.
  • Creighton, Charles. A history of epidemics in Britain (With additional material by D.E.C. Eversley et al. 2nd edn. 2 vols. London: Cass, 1965).
  • Darlington, Ida, and Howgego, James. Printed maps of London circa 1553-1850 (London: G. Philip, 1964).
  • Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year (Harmondsworth: Penguin (Classics edn.), 1986).
  • Dekker, Thomas. London looke backe (London, 1630); Newes from Graves- end: sent to no-body (London, 1604); A rod for run-awaies (London, 1625); The wonderfull yeare (London, 1603): all in F.P. Wilson (ed.), The plague pamphlets of Thomas Dekker (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925).
  • Dinnis, Francis Henry (ed.). Paddington in 1665, the year of the Great Plague, being extracts from an old parish register (London, Morton, 1874).
  • Douglas, Mary. Purity and danger: an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo (London: Ark, 1984).
  • Durey, Michael J. The return of the plague: British society and the cholera, 1831- 2 (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1979).
  • Elcombe, Graham. 'Epidemic in Pinner, 1741', The Pinn, No. 4 (1991), pp. 57- 62.
  • Elyot, Sir Thomas. Castel of Helthe (London,1539) [British Library c54 a18]
  • Faithorne, William. An exact delineation of the cities of London and Westminster and the suburbs (London: 1658).
  • Finlay, Roger. Population and metropolis: the demography of London, 1580- 1650 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
  • Fisher, John L. 'The Black Death in Essex', Essex Review, 52 (1943), pp. 13- 20.
  • Forbes, Thomas Rogers. 'By what disease or casualty: the changing face of death in London', Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 31 (1976), pp. 395-420.
  • Forbes, Thomas Rogers. 'The searchers', New York Academy of Medicine Bulletin, 2nd series, 50 (1974), pp. 1031-8.
  • Foucault, Michael. The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception, transl. by A.M. Sheridan Smith (London: Tavistock, 1973, paperback edn., 1976).
  • Furnivall, Frederick J. (ed.). Four supplications (Early English Text Society extra series no. 13; London: N. Truber and Co., 1871).
  • Fyshe, Simon. A supplicacyon for the beggars (London, c.1529) in F.J. Furnivall (ed.), Four supplications (London: N. Truber and Co., 1871)
  • Gasper, Julia. The dragon and the dove: the plays of Thomas Dekker (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).
  • Gasquet, Francis Aidan. The Black Death of 1348 and 1349 (2nd edn. London: Bell, 1908).
  • Gittings, Clare. Death, burial and the indivdual in early modern England (London: Croom Helm, 1984).
  • Glanville, Philippa. London in maps (London: The Connoisseur, 1972).
  • Granshaw, Lindsay. 'The rise of the modern hospital in Britain' in Andrew Wear (ed.), Medicine in society: historical essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
  • Graunt, John. Natural and political observations made upon the Bills of Mortality in Charles Henry Hull (ed.), The economic writings of Sir William Petty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1899), vol. 2.
  • Green, F.H.K. 'An eighteenth-century small-pox hospital', British Medical Journal, i (1939).
  • Gregg, C. Plague (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978, rev. 1985).
  • Grell, Ole Peter. 'Plague in Elizabethan and Stuart London: the Dutch response', Medical History, 34 (1990), pp. 424-39.
  • Guildhall Library. Handlist of parish registers (2 parts; Part 1 6th edn.; part 2 5th edn.; London: Guildhall Library, 1990, 1986).
  • Guildhall Library. 'A list of works in Guildhall Library relating to the plague in London, together with the bills of mortality, 1532(?)-1858', Guildhall Miscellany, 2 (1965), pp. 306-17.
  • Guy, William A. 'Two hundred and fifty years of smallpox in London, together with a supplement relating to England and Wales', Royal Statistical Society Journal, 45 (1882), pp. 399-437.
  • Hale, David George. The body politic: a political metaphor in Renaissance English literature (The Hague: Mouton, 1971).
  • Harding, Vanessa. ' "And one more may be laid there": the location of burials in early modern London', London Journal, 14 (1989), pp. 115-18.
  • Hardy, Anne. 'Diagnosis, death and diet: the case of London, 1750-1909', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 18 (1988), pp. 387-401.
  • Hardy, Anne. 'Smallpox in London: factors in the decline of the disease in the nineteenth century', Medical History, 27 (1983), pp. 111-138.
  • Hardy, Anne. 'Urban famine or urban crisis? Typhus in the Victorian city', Medical History, 32 (1988), pp. 401-25.
  • Hart, Harold W. The short life of a restricted London hospital (London: Lewisham Local History Society, 1985).
  • Harvey, Gideon. The City Remembrancer: being historical narratives of the Great Plague at London, 1665; Great Fire, 1666; and Great Storm, 1703...compiled from the papers of Dr Harvey (2 vols.; London: Nicholl, 1769).
  • Hatcher, John. Plague, population and the English economy, 1348-1530 (London: Macmillan, 1977).
  • Hawkins, Duncan. 'The Black Death and the new London cemeteries of 1348', Antiquity, 64 (1990), pp. 637-42.
  • Henry VIII. A copy of the letters wherin...King Henry the eight...made answer unto a certayn letter of Martyn Luther (London, 1528).
  • Higgins, Robert M.C.R. 'The 1832 cholera epidemic in east London', East London Record, No. 2 (1979), pp. 2-14.
  • Hirst, Leonard Fabian. The conquest of the plague; a study of the evolution of epidemiology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953).
  • Historical Manuscripts Commission. Eighth report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London: HMSO, 1881).
  • History and Computing, 4:1 (1992). [A special issue on computerized record linkage]
  • Hollingsworth, Mary F., and Hollingsworth, T.H. 'Plague mortality rates by age and sex in the parish of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate, London, 1603', Population Studies, 25 (1971), pp. 131-46.
  • Holmes, Isabella (Mrs Basil Holmes). The London burial grounds (London: Fisher Unwin, 1896).
  • Huelin, G. 'The Church's reponse to the cholera outbreak of 1866', Studies in Church History, 6 (1970), pp. 137-48.
  • Husbands, Chris. 'Hearths, wealth and occupations: an exploration of the Hearth Tax in the later seventeenth century', in Kevin Schurer and Tom Arkell (eds.), Surveying the people (Oxford: Leopard's Head Press for Local Population Studies, 1992).
  • Hyde, Ralph, Fisher, John, and Cline, Roger (eds.). The A to Z of Restoration London (London Topographical Society publication No. 145; London: London Topographical Society, 1992) [Reduced facsimile of Ogilby and Morgan's map of 1676]
  • Jewers, Arthur J. 'The will of a plague-stricken Londoner', Home Counties Magazine, 3 (1901), pp. 109-10. [Richard Lane of parish of St Margaret New Fish Street, d. 1593.]
  • Jewson, N.D. 'The disappearance of the sick man from medical cosmology 1770-1870', Sociology, 10 (1976), pp. 225-244.
  • Kearns, Gerard. Urban epidemics and historical geography: cholera in London, 1848-9 (Institute of British Geographers, Historical Geography Research Series, No. 15; Norwich: Geo Books, 1985).
  • Kearns, Gerard. 'Zivilis or Hygaeia: urban public health and the epidemiologic transition' in Richard Lawton (ed.), The rise and fall of great cities: aspects of urbanization in the western world (London: Belhaven Press, 1989).
  • Keene, Derek, and Harding, Vanessa. A survey of documentary sources for property holding in London before the Great Fire (London Record Society vol. 22; London: London Record Society, 1985).
  • Kellwaye, Simon. A defensative against the plague (London, 1593).
  • Kelsall, A.F. 'The London house-plan in the later 17th century', Post-Medieval Archaeology, 8 (1974), pp. 80-91.
  • Kerwick, Alan. 'The Soho epidemic of cholera', Medico-Legal Journal, 33 (1965), pp. 152-61.
  • Landers, John and Mouzas, Anastasia. 'Burial seasonality and causes of death in London 1670-1819', Population Studies, 42 (1988), pp. 59-83.
  • Latham, Robert and Matthews, William (eds.). The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Vol. VI, 1665 (London: Bell & Hyman, 1972).
  • Leasor, Thomas James. The Plague and the Fire (London: Allen & Unwin, 1962).
  • Light, Alfred W. Bunhill Fields (London: C.J. Farncombe & Sons, 1915).
  • Lilienfeld, David E. '"The greening of epidemiology": sanitary physicians and the London Epidemiological Society, 1830-70', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 52 (1978), pp. 503-28.
  • Lodge, Thomas. A treatise of the plague (London, 1603).
  • Longmate, Norman. King Cholera: the biography of a disease (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966).
  • Loudon, I.S.L. 'The origins and growth of the dispensary movement in England', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 55 (1981).
  • Luckin, W. 'Evaluating the sanitary revolution: typhus and typhoid in London, 1851- 1900', in Robert Woods and John Woodward (eds.), Urban disease and mortality in nineteenth-century England (London: Batsford, 1984), pp. 102-19.
  • Luckin, W. 'The final catastrophe: cholera in London, 1866', Medical History, 21 (1977), pp. 32-42.
  • Lucretius Carus, Titus. The nature of things (De rerum natura) (translated by Frank O. Copley; New York: W. Norton, 1977).
  • Maitland, William. The history of London from its foundation to the present time (London: printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756).
  • Manchester, K. The archaeology of disease (Bradford: Bradford University Press, 1983).
  • Manning, Brian. Village revolts: social protest and popular disturbance in England, 1509-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988).
  • Manning, J. I am for you all, Complexions Castle (London, 1604) [British Library c31 e2].
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  • Marwick, Arthur. The deluge: British society and the First World War (London: Bodley Head, 1965).
  • Matossian, M.K. 'Death in London, 1750-1909', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 16 (1985), pp. 183-197.
  • McNeill, William H. Plagues and peoples (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976).
  • Miller, Genevieve. 'Smallpox innoculation in England and America: a reappraisal', William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 13 (1956), pp. 476-92.
  • Molleson, Theya and Cox, Margaret. Spitalfields: the middling sort (Council for British Archaeology, 1993).
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  • Morris, Robert John. Cholera 1832: the social response to an epidemic (London: Croom Helm, 1976).
  • Mortimer, Philip. 'Cholera in south London', St. Thomas's Hospital Gazette, 64 (1966-7), pp. 136-8.
  • Mullaney, Stephen. The place of the stage: license, play and power in Renaissance England (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1988).
  • Mullett, Charles F. The bubonic plague in England: an essay in the history of preventive medicine (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1956).
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  • Parliamentary Papers. Report from the select committee on improvement of the health of towns (1842) X no. 327.
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