John S. Morrill
Contributor
LOCATION: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Assistant Master and Professor of History, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Consultant editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Primary Contributions (41)
Great Plague of London, epidemic of plague that ravaged London, England, from 1665 to 1666. City records indicate that some 68,596 people died during the epidemic, though the actual number of deaths is suspected to have exceeded 100,000 out of a total population estimated at 460,000. The outbreak…
READ MORE