Death & Disasters
Discover objects, stories and blogs that tell us about death and disaster through London’s history.
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Death & Disasters
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Mary I & the Smithfield martyrs
This Tudor queen burned Protestants at the stake for their religious beliefs
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
A timeline of IRA attacks in London
From the 1970s to the 1990s, Londoners faced the repeated threat of Irish republican bombings
Health & Disease
Health & Disease
The Great Pestilence in London
Plague killed over half of the city’s population between 1348 and 1352
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