Events: detail
In the Footsteps of Daniel Defoe
- Hosted by:
- Wellcome Collection
- Speaker:
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Alice Ford-Smith, Principal Librarian, Dr Williams's Library
- Starts:
- October 18, 2008 at 12:00 pm
- Ends:
- October 18, 2008 at 02:00 pm
- Location:
- Tower Hill Underground Station, London Underground Ltd., Trinity Square, London, EC3N 4DJ United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
The Great Plague of 1665-6 is the most infamous episode in London’s medical history. In his ‘Journal of the Plague Year’, published in 1722, Daniel Defoe – an archetypal Londoner – memorialised the sufferings of the city he loved. His fictional avatar ‘H.F.’ will be your guide, as you weave the story of the Great Plague with Defoe’s life as satirist, rebel, convict and spy.
With Alice Ford-Smith, Principal Librarian, Dr Williams’s Library
This is an adapted version of a walk published in ‘Medical London: City of Disease, City of Cures’.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Please note that this walk starts at Tower Hill Tube station and ends at Moorgate Tube station.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Wellcome Collection Events
- Phone:
- 020 7611 2222
- Email:
- events [ at ] wellcomecollection.org
- Website:
- In the Footsteps of Daniel Defoe
