England’s urban landscape was forever transformed by the ravages of plague, and the march of reform. Jeremy Blacks joins Graham Stewart to discuss the 17th century town.
(Original Caption) London, England: "Being come to London I walked a little among the ruins and I saw the city lying according as the word of the Lord same to me concerning it, several years before." From George Fox, his journal, 1666. The founder of the Quakers watching the ruins of the metropolis after the great fire and plague. Undated etching.
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