Bills of Mortality

Tweeting incidences and observations on sudden violent death in early modern London.

[Bills of Mortality @mortalitybills]

So it had to happen #plague, the #BillsofMortality and #Covid_19 new Blog Post on tracking plague in seventeenth-century #London https://t.co/dxPhRgMP4O

[The London Archives @TheLdnArchives]

Such as this bill of mortality from London 12-19 September 1665, at the height of the Great Plague. Some of the causes of death, such as ‘bleeding’, are familiar. What about some of the others like ‘chrisomos’, ‘grip’, or ‘rising of the lights’? Let’s investigate.
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[OldRailwayAccidents @RWLDproject]

🚨#PhD alert!🚨

‘Give him sympathy & a helping hand’: Understanding the impact of occupational accidents & disability on English & Welsh railway staff & their families, 1897-1939

With Mike @UoP_History, @RailwayMuseum's Karen, & @CathrynPearce.

More:
https://t.co/vq2ouQi0VE

[Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys]

Dined at home in the garret, where my wife dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her hand.

[Bills of Mortality @mortalitybills]

The rebuilding of London after the Great Fire began this day in 1666, but it was to cost many more lives than the fire itself. See my blog from the #GreatFire350 anniversary for some estimates @UKParlArchives @LFBMuseum

[Bills of Mortality @mortalitybills]

New Blog Post: How many people were killed by the Great Fire? More than you thought! #GreatFire350 https://t.co/32BoNjec9U

[Ella Sbaraini @EllaSbaraini]

Ok so I've had *such* a good day. Why? Because in 1845, a new clerk started working for the Westminster coroner. And BOY OH BOY does he have some of the most legible handwriting I've encountered in the 19th century 😽

[Dr Una McIlvenna 💀🎶 @UnaMcIlvenna]

Exciting news this morning: my book is available for pre-order! https://t.co/DPRMVtvi3i
And look at my lovely book cover!!

[Bills of Mortality @mortalitybills]

Drawing on Bills of Mortality from @ExploreWellcome @WellcomeLibrary and Parish Registers from @LdnMetArchives etc etc

[Bills of Mortality @mortalitybills]

So it had to happen #plague, the #BillsofMortality and #Covid_19 new Blog Post on tracking plague in seventeenth-century #London https://t.co/dxPhRgMP4O

[Dr Craig Spence @cgspence]

New Blog Post reviewing the 17th century approach to tracking epidemic disease in #London #plague #COVID19

[Dr Craig Spence @cgspence]

My new blogpost looks at #burns and scalding injuries in #earlymodern #London why not take a few minutes to have a little read @boydellbrewer @BurnsHistory @BGUHistory @ExploreWellcome

[Bills of Mortality @mortalitybills]

Short blog post on the eighteenth-century dangers of smoking - a tad more violent than you might imagine https://t.co/b77B0z8gQK

[Dr Craig Spence @cgspence]

And you can read his story in my book 'Accidents and violent death in early modern London' @boydellbrewer !

[Dr Craig Spence @cgspence]

Enjoyed sharing my @BGUHistory research into 18th century Searchers (of the Dead) with the Death 'Festival' participants today. Also thanks to my @BGULincoln colleagues in Counselling who ran an excellent panel on Grief afterwards. Now I'm rethinking the Searchers!

[Dr Craig Spence @cgspence]

Loving the panoply of #accidents in #TheFavourite - falling out of coaches, into ditches, off horses, and out of windows, playing with guns and slipping on fruit! Not forgetting the hazards of the 18th century library search

[Sharon Howard @sharon_howard]

Westminster Coroners Inquests 1760-1799, Part 1 https://t.co/pvDCqshNHM

[History at BGU @BGUHistory]

Drawing on his recent research @cgspence @BGUHistory reflects on the dangers of breaching fireground cordons in 18th century London https://t.co/4JG0Fe7tZQ

[Bills of Mortality @mortalitybills]

Blog post -The dangers of breaching a fireground cordon: a lesson from history https://t.co/ZRIEZx03HI @GSofA @GlasgowCC @fire_scot @BGULincoln @BGUHistory @BurnsHistory

[Sharon Howard @sharon_howard]

Today's Tidy textmining homework: getting my head round term frequency-inverse document) frequency (tf-idf). Playing with Westminster coroners inquests data - formal inquisition texts split into subcorpora by verdicts. I like this. 😎

[Sharon Howard @sharon_howard]

Been working through this R sentiment analysis tutorial and decided to try it out on the Ordinary's Accounts. This is what the 1690s OAs (chunked by paragraph) look like. It's quite pretty, at least...

[Brodie Waddell @Brodie_Waddell]

What can the diary of a frustrated 18th-century stonemason reveal? Today @Tawny_Paul explores manhood and family strife in our new 'Page in the Life' post:
https://t.co/ZEmP8Y9kQf