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Parochial registration and the Bills of Mortality

New Insights Into Mortality Patterns of Early Modern Cities

Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction

An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all...

Why the Enlightenment still matters today

“The Enlightenment” has been regarded as a turning point in...

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been...

The Black Death

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in...

Trading Places and Travelling - Musical Legacies of the Hanseatic League

The cities of Northern Europe developed their trading links with...

Illuminated Psalter Manuscripts

Psalters containing the 150 Psalms were immensely popular medieval manuscripts...

Drawings in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Medieval drawings are frequently viewed as the poor cousins of...