Stuart (1603 – 1714)
Explore objects, stories and blogs to investigate life in London under the Stuart monarchs – a time of civil war, plague and the Great Fire.
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Top-Results
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Great Plague of 1665
An estimated 100,000 people died in London’s last major plague epidemic
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
Jack Sheppard: An 18th-century working class hero
How one young criminal became a working class hero by escaping London prisons four times.
Royalty & Aristocracy
Royalty & Aristocracy
Why Charles I was executed
A tale of religion and Parliament which ends abruptly in 1649
