Resources: Printed Sources: Episodes

The Fire

T. M. M. Baker, London: Rebuilding the City after the Great Fire (Chichester, 2000)

Erik Bond, “Historicizing the ‘new normal’: London’s great fire and the genres of urban destruction”, Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 31.2 (2007): 43-64

Michael Cooper, ‘A more beautiful city: Robert Hook and the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire (Stroud, 2003) 

Frances Dolan, ““‘Ashes and the archive’: the London fire of 1666, partisanship and proof”, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31.2 (2001): 379-408

Ian Doolittle, “The London property ‘market’ before and after the Great Fire”, London Topgraphical Society Newsletter 56 (2003): 5-8

Sophie Gee,  “The Invention of Wasteland: Civic Narrative and Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis”, Eighteenth-century Life 29:1 (2005): 82-108

Adrian Gilbert, The new Jerusalem: rebuilding London: the Great Fire (London, 2002)

Gustave Milne, The Great Fire of London (London, 1986)

Oliveras-Heras Montserrat and Marcela Trambaioli, “Una relacion sevillana desconocida sobre el fuego de Londres en 1666”, Archivo hispalense, 2a epoca, 79:240 (1996): 81-91

Stephen Porter, The Great Fire of London (Godalming, 1998)

Nigel Smith, “‘Making fire’: conflagration and religious controversy in seventeenth-century London”, in Julia Merritt, ed., Imagining early modern London: perceptions and portrayals of the city from Stowe to Strype (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 273-93

Adrian Tinniswood, By permission of heaven: the story of the Great Fire of London (London, 2003)

Plagues

Andrew Appleby, “The disappearance of the plague: a continuing puzzle”, Economic History Review 2nd series 33 (1980): 161-73

Justin Champion, London’s dreaded visitation: the social geography of the great plague in 1665 (London, 1995) 

—————————, ed., Epidemic disease in London (London, 1993)

————————-, “Relational databases and the great plague in London, 1665:, History and Computing 5 (1993): 2-12

Stephen Greenberg, “Plague, the Printing Press and Public Health in Seventeenth Century England”, Huntington Library Quarterly 67:4 (2004): 508-27

Bart Holland, “Treatments for bubonic plague: reports from the seventeenth century British epidemics”,  Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 93.6 (2000): 322-4

Mark Jenner, “The great dog massacre”, in William Naphy and Penny Roberts, eds., Fear in early modern society (Manchester, 1997), pp. 44-61

Roger Lund, “Infectious Wit: Metaphor, Atheism and Plague in Eighteenth-Century London”, Literature and Medicine 22.1 (2003): 45-64 

A. Lloyd Moote and Dorothy Moote, The great plague: The story of London’s most deadly year (Baltimore, 2004)

Richelle Munkhoff, “Searchers of the dead: authority, marginality and the interpretation of plague on England, 1574-1665”, Gender and History 11.1 (1999): 1-29

Pamela Oldfield,  The Great plague: the diary of Alice Paynton, London,1665-1666 (London, 2001)

Stephen Porter, The plagues of London (Stroud, 2008)

————————, Lord have mercy upon us: London’s plague years (Stroud, 2005)

————————, The Great Plauge (Stroud, 1999)

Paul Slack, “Metropolitan government in crisis: the response to the plague” in A. L. Biere and Roger Finlay, eds., London 1500-1700: the making of the metropolis (London, 1986)

———————-, The impact of the plague in Tudor and Stuart England (London, 1985)

V. L, Wainwright, “Lending to the Lord: Defoe’s rhetorical design in A Journal of the Plague Year”, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 13 (1990): 59-72 

London and National Politics

      Before the Civil War

Alistair Bellany, “The Murder of John Lambe: Crowd Violence, Court Scandal and Popular Politics in Early Seventeenth Century England”, Past and Present 200 (2008): 37-76 

Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict and London’s Overseas Trade, 1550-1653 (Princeton, 1992)

David Como, “Predestination and political conflict in Laud’s London”, Historical Journal 46.2 (2003): 263-94

Maija Janson, “The impeachment of Inigo Jones and the pulling down of St Gregory’s by Pauls”, Renaissance Studies 17.4 (2003): 716-46 M

Chris Kyle, “Parliament and the politics of carting in early Stuart London”, London Journal 27.2 (2002): 1-11 

Valerie Pearl, London and the Outbreak of the Puritan Revolution (Oxford, 1961)

James Robertson, “Persuading the citizens?  Charles I and London Bridge”, Histrorical Research 79:206 (2006): 512-33

David Smith, “From Petition to Remonstrance”, in David Smith, Richard Strier and David Bevington, eds., The theatrical city: culture, theatre and politics in London, 1576-1649 (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 209-23

     Civil War to Restoration

Norah Carlin, “Liberty and fraternities in the English Revolution: the politics of London artisans’ protests”, International Review of Social History 39 (1994): 223-54

Barry Coward, “London and the English Civil War”, The Historian 99 (2008): 6-15

Dagmar Freist, Governed by opinion: politics, religion and the dynamics of communication in Stuart London, 1637-1645 (London, 1997)

Ian Gentles, “Parliamentary Politics and the Politics of the Street: The London Peace Campaigns, 1642-43”, Parliamentary History 26.2 (2007): 139-59 

Ariel Hesayon, “Gold tired in the fire”: the prophet Thereaujohn Taney and the English Revolution (Aldershot, 2007)

Jason Peacey, “To every individual member: the Palace of Westminster and participatory politicsin the seventeenth century”, The Court Historian 13.2 (2008): 127-47

Stephen Porter, ed., London and the Civil War (Basingstoke, 1996) 

Titania Stufino, “The Catholic Church and the English Civil War: The case of John White”,  Journal of Ecclesiastical History 58.2 (2007): 232-55

     Restoration to Revolution 

Gary DeKrey, London and the Restoration 1659-1683 (Cambridge, 2005)

———————, “The first restoration crisis: conscience and coercion in London, 1667-73”, Albion 25 (1993): 565-80

———————, “The London Whigs and the Exclusion Crisis” in A. L. Bierer, David Cannadine and James Rosenheim, eds., The First Modern Society: Essays in Honour of Lawrence Stone  (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 457-82 

———————,  “Reformation and ‘arbitrary government’: London Dissenters and James II’s polity of toleration, 1687-1688” in Jason McElligott, ed., Fear, exclusion and revolution: Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 13-31 

Tim Harris, London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II: Propaganda and Politics from the Restoration until the Exclusion Crisis (Cambridge, 1987)

————————, “The Bawdy House Riots of 1668”, Historical Journal 29 (1986): 537-56

Mark Knights, Politics and Opinion in Crisis, 1678-81 (Cambridge, 1994)

——————-, “A City in Revolution: The Remodelling of the London Livery Companies in the 1680s”, English Historical Review 112 (1997): 1141-78

——————, “London Petitions and Parliamentary Politics in 1679”, Parliamentary History 12 (1993): 29-46

——————, “London’s Monster Petition of 1680”, Historical Journal 36 (1993), 39-67

——————, “Petitioning and Political Theorists: John Locke, Algernon Sidney and London’s “Monster” Petition of 1680”, Past and Present 138 (1993): 94-111

Ruth Paley, “William Cleve and the Hilton Gang: Magistracy and Dissent in the 1680s”, Archives 34:120 (2009): 42-51

John Spurr, England in the 1670s: This Masquerading Age (Oxford, 2000)

     The Revolution to the Death of Anne

 Gary DeKrey, A Fractured Society: The Politics of London in the First Age of Party, 1688-1715 (Oxford, 1985)

——————-, ““Revoilution redivivus: 1688-1689 and the radical tradition in seventeenth-century London politics” in Lois Schwoerer, ed., The Revolution of 1688-1689: Changing Perspectives (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 198-217

Perry Gauci, “The Clash of Interests: Commerce and the Politics of Trade in the Reign of Queen Anne”, Parliamentary History 28:1 (2009): 115-25

Charles-Edouard Levillain, “London besieged? The city’s vulnerability during the Glorious Revolution”, in McElligott, ed., Fear, exclusion and revolution, pp. 91-107

Lois Potter, “Politics and popular culture: the theatrical response to the Revolution” in Schwoerer, Revolution of 1688-1689, pp. 184-97 

Pat Rogers, “The Maypole in the Strand: Pope and the Politics of Revelry”, British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 28:1 (2005): 83-96

Lois Schwoerer, “The coronation of William and Mary, April 11, 1689” in Schwoerer, Revolution of 1688-1689, pp. 107-30

 

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