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Secret Eyam

- Plague Village
Af: Jill Armitage Engelsk Paperback

Secret Eyam

- Plague Village
Af: Jill Armitage Engelsk Paperback
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Eyam (pronounced Eem), given the Saxon name Eaham, meaning a well-watered hamlet, is a secluded Peak District village hemmed in by green slopes and majestic hills. Within ¼ mile, the busy world passes by along the A623, yet every year thousands of people head directly to this isolated rural community, tragically famous as the plague village that self-isolated. The year 1665 saw outbreaks of bubonic plague in London and many other cities, towns and villages across England. The incomprehensible terror of the plague, caused by the bite of a rat flea infected by the bacterium Pasteurella pestis, arrived in Eyam in September 1665 and in order to contain the disease, the villagers chose to lock themselves in isolation. This was an act of true altruism by grief-stricken people in a village where every home became a morgue and every resident a mourner.Some 350 years later, as we have encountered a pandemic of gigantic proportions with the Covid-19 crisis, the story of Eyam has inspired Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, to devote half of his poem ‘Lockdown’ to the suffering of these people.Secret Eyam: Plague Village, illustrated throughout, expands upon these stories, taking a closer examination of this area’s important history.
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Eyam (pronounced Eem), given the Saxon name Eaham, meaning a well-watered hamlet, is a secluded Peak District village hemmed in by green slopes and majestic hills. Within ¼ mile, the busy world passes by along the A623, yet every year thousands of people head directly to this isolated rural community, tragically famous as the plague village that self-isolated. The year 1665 saw outbreaks of bubonic plague in London and many other cities, towns and villages across England. The incomprehensible terror of the plague, caused by the bite of a rat flea infected by the bacterium Pasteurella pestis, arrived in Eyam in September 1665 and in order to contain the disease, the villagers chose to lock themselves in isolation. This was an act of true altruism by grief-stricken people in a village where every home became a morgue and every resident a mourner.Some 350 years later, as we have encountered a pandemic of gigantic proportions with the Covid-19 crisis, the story of Eyam has inspired Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, to devote half of his poem ‘Lockdown’ to the suffering of these people.Secret Eyam: Plague Village, illustrated throughout, expands upon these stories, taking a closer examination of this area’s important history.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 96
ISBN-13: 9781398109209
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1398109207
Kategori: Derbyshire
Udg. Dato: 15 mar 2023
Længde: 12mm
Bredde: 167mm
Højde: 233mm
Forlag: Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato: 15 mar 2023
Forfatter(e): Jill Armitage
Forfatter(e) Jill Armitage


Kategori Derbyshire


ISBN-13 9781398109209


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 96


Udgave


Længde 12mm


Bredde 167mm


Højde 233mm


Udg. Dato 15 mar 2023


Oplagsdato 15 mar 2023


Forlag Amberley Publishing

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