Derbyshire Registers & Records

Currently, there is one title within this collection:

• The Brave Men of Eyam, 1665-1666 – Or A Tale of the Great Plague Year, by Edward N Hoare, rector of Acrise, a civil and ecclesiastical parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent. Eyam is a civil parish and village in the Derbyshire Dales district. The village is particularly known for the 1665 outbreak of bubonic plague and the villagers’ response to it: isolating themselves to prevent further spreading of the plague. The preface of this title attempts to explain the extent to which this work is factual and fictional. It is stated that the statistics regarding deaths, dates, and some leading incidents are historical, and ‘the object of the book is to tell, in a popular form, the tale of a “mighty woe”’.

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