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Eyam and “the last great visitation”
Author(s) -
Fanshawe Tom
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00608.x
Subject(s) - courage , trace (psycholinguistics) , sacrifice , history , genealogy , archaeology , political science , law , philosophy , linguistics
Great disasters can bring forth great courage. Tom Fanshawe finds that the bravery and self‐sacrifice of the men, women and children in a small Derbyshire village 350 years ago have helped to trace the way that epidemics spread and fade.