Abstract:This article redresses a predominant focus on London among historians of health inequalities by turning to the port town of Kingston upon Hull and offering the first demographic analysis of burial records from Hull's 'great plague' of 1637-38. The article shows how the social history of plague intersects with the flood metaphors of Hull poet, Andrew Marvell (1621-78) and his father, the Reverend Andrew Marvell (c.1584-1641). The article offers new understanding of Marvell as an estuary poet immersed in the flo… Show more
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