Surviving the Great Plague

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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As we grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic, historian Vanessa Harding describes the events of the Great Plague that afflicted London in 1665, and explains how people at the time sought to cope with the disease. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.4	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.
0:56.0	I'm Ellie Cawthorne.
0:59.3	The guest on today's episode is Vanessa Harding,
1:03.1	Professor of London History at Birkbeck University of London,
1:06.9	who also wrote a feature for the June issue of BBC History magazine on the Great Plague of 1665.
1:10.8	World History's editor Matt Elton spoke to her about how
1:14.3	people understood and coped with the pandemic and the lessons it might hold for us today in the
1:19.8	midst of the coronavirus crisis. How familiar were people with the plague before 1665 and why is
1:26.4	that year's outbreak known as the Great Plague?
1:30.4	1665 is known to posterity as the Great Plague because of its magnitude. It is the biggest,
1:35.9	the most deadly epidemic, apart from the first 14th century eruption of plague into England.
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