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Bell, W. G. (1924)

The Great Plague in London in 1665 , London: John Lane. Probably the definitive account.

Creighton, C. (1894)

History of Epidemics in Britain , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Creighton is the doyen of epidemiologists. Although medically qualified, his approach in this classic work, which was to provide a chronicle of death and disease in the people of the UK, was that of a professional historian and he worked with great care on his sources.

An account of the epidemic at Eyam published 30 years before Yersin’s work on bubonic plague is given by Wood, W. (1865)

The History of Antiquities of Eyam , 4th edn, London: Bell and Daldy. It contains no confusing mention of rats and fleas.

The plagues of Iceland are of particular interest because they were constrained within this isolated island community and were initiated by the arrival of a single ship. Karlsson, G. (1996) 'Plague without rats: the case of fifteenth century Iceland’,

Journal of Medieval History,

22: 263-84. It would be particularly interesting to measure the frequency of the CCR5-Δ32 mutation in Iceland today.

An erudite account of plagues in the early Islamic Empire is Dols, M. W. (1977)

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