A Plague Among Us

An Annal of London's Dreadful Visitation as recorded by the Searchers of the Dead by Moyra Turkington PITCH 1665: London’s population swells uncontrolled. Houses jetty over the streets, blocking out the sky over the laneways of the poor. From the Thames to the city walls, rats from merchant ships introduce The Great Plague. Spreading hungrily, it will devour a quarter of the city’s souls. You …