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Author : Charles J. Shields
Publisher : Facts On File
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fires
ISBN : 0791063240
A detailed history of two disasters that befell London, England: the Great Plague of 1665 in which it is estimated that at least 70,000 died, and the Great Fire of 1666, which destroyed four-fifths of the city.
Author : Richard Tames
Publisher : Heinemann Library
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fires
ISBN : 0431068798
Designed to tie in with the National Curriculum, each of the four titles in the Turning Points in History series examines the events and effects of a major historical watershed. This book looks at the events of the Great Fire of London and its impact as a turning point in history.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Fires
ISBN : UVA:X002400273
Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1789430992
Samuel Pepys gives a unique first hand account of life during the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London. Pepys stayed in London while many of the wealthy fled the city in the face of the plague. His careful observation and interest in the details of people's lives as well as the events of the time are unparalleled.
Author : Gideon Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1769
Category : London (England)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0036698539
Author : Richard Tames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1280736514
Looks at how London survived the plague which wiped out half of its population, followed by the Great fire of London in 1666 which destroyed most of the city. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
Author : M Q Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1840722770
Author : James C. Mohr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0198036760
A little over a century ago, bubonic plague--the same Black Death that decimated medieval Europe--arrived on the shores of Hawaii just as the islands were about to become a U.S. territory. In this absorbing narrative, James Mohr tells the story of that fearful visitation and its fiery climax--a vast conflagration that engulfed Honolulu's Chinatown. Mohr tells this gripping tale largely through the eyes of the people caught up in the disaster, from members of the white elite to Chinese doctors, Japanese businessmen, and Hawaiian reporters. At the heart of the narrative are three American physicians--the Honolulu Board of Health--who became virtual dictators when the government granted them absolute control over the armed forces and the treasury. The doctors soon quarantined Chinatown, where the plague was killing one or two people a day and clearly spreading. They resisted intense pressure from the white community to burn down all of Chinatown at once and instead ordered a careful, controlled burning of buildings where plague victims had died. But a freak wind whipped one of those small fires into a roaring inferno that destroyed everything in its path, consuming roughly thirty-eight acres of densely packed wooden structures in a single afternoon. Some 5000 people lost their homes and all their possessions and were marched in shock to detention camps, where they were confined under armed guard for weeks. Next to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Chinatown fire is the worst civic disaster in Hawaiian history. A dramatic account of people struggling in the face of mounting catastrophe, Plague and Fire is a stimulating and thought-provoking read.
Author : Walter George Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015017978514
Thomson, George.
Author : Gideon Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1769
Category : Fire prevention
ISBN : UCSD:31822043011220
Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1976075858
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the disasters *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In the 14th century, a ruthless killer stalked the streets of England, wiping out up to 60% of the terror-stricken nation's inhabitants. This invisible and unforgiving terminator continued to harass the population for hundreds of years, but nothing could compare to the savagery it would unleash 3 centuries later. This conscienceless menace was none other than the notorious bubonic plague, also known as the "Black Death." The High Middle Ages had seen a rise in Western Europe's population in previous centuries, but these gains were almost entirely erased as the plague spread rapidly across all of Europe from 1346-1353. With a medieval understanding of medicine, diagnosis, and illness, nobody understood what caused Black Death or how to truly treat it. As a result, many religious people assumed it was divine retribution, while superstitious and suspicious citizens saw a nefarious human plot involved and persecuted certain minority groups among them. Though it is now widely believed that rats and fleas spread the disease by carrying the bubonic plague westward along well-established trade routes, and there are now vaccines to prevent the spread of the plague, the Black Death gruesomely killed upwards of 100 million people, with helpless chroniclers graphically describing the various stages of the disease. It took Europe decades for its population to bounce back, and similar plagues would affect various parts of the world for the next several centuries, but advances in medical technology have since allowed researchers to read various medieval accounts of the Black Death in order to understand the various strains of the disease. Furthermore, the social upheaval caused by the plague radically changed European societies, and some have noted that by the time the plague had passed, the Late Middle Ages would end with many of today's European nations firmly established. In the 17th century, the people of London could boast that they had developed some of the most advanced firefighting technology and methods in the world, including the use of primitive fire engines. There were even vendors of such machines who advertised in papers of their machines' abilities to quench great fires. Of course, even with trained firefighters and new devices, the most skillful efforts could still prove limited in the face of a giant fire, as Rome had learned over 1500 years earlier and as Chicago would learn nearly 200 years later. In fact, one of the primary reasons London developed ways to fight fires was the fact that the city was particularly vulnerable. Although London was over 1500 years old and sat at the heart of the British Empire, most of the buildings were made of wood, and the city was overcrowded, in part due to the fact that city planners worked with and around the ancient Roman fortifications that had been constructed to defend it. As such, while there were spacious areas for the elite and rich outside of the city, London itself had narrow streets full of wood buildings that were practically on top of each other. With some bad luck and bad timing, a potential disaster awaited the city, and that finally came in September 1666. As it turned out, the Great Fire of London was so bad that one author who studied the blaze described it as "the perfect fire," referring to the convergence in the largest city in England of spark, wood and wind in such a way that no one could stop the fire or even fight it effectively. The fire lasted three days, and by the end of it, Londoners were shocked by the wide-scale destruction, which was so great that Samuel Pepys remarked, "It made me weep to see it." In the aftermath, people looked for scapegoats, ranging from King Charles II to the Pope and his Catholic supporters, while England's leaders looked to rebuild the city.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1722
Category : Fires
ISBN : UOM:39015008802483
Author : James Leasor
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755100408
Author : Gideon Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1769
Category : Fires
ISBN : LCCN:01001016
Author : Pamela Oldfield
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780702303050
The Great Plague is a thrilling story of a young girl during the epidemic of 1665. It's 1665, and Alice is looking forward to being back in London. But the plague is spreading quickly, and as each day passes more red crosses appear on doors. When her aunt is struck down with the plague, she is forced to make a decision that could change her life forever... Alice's chilling diary brings alive one of the darkest moments in British history: the Great Plague of 1665-1666. Experience history first-hand with My Story in this all-new look!