The London Bills of Mortality lend themselves to both qualitative and quantitative analyses. The following team member essays analyze the bills using a variety of historical and statistical methods.

Plague

• A Deadly Decade: Yearly Plague Spikes in Early Modern London between 1638-1647
• Death on Two Legs: Analyzing the initial 20 weeks of the 1636 London plague outbreak using time-to-event analysis

Other Specific Causes

• A Starvation Death During the Great Plague of 1665
• Chimneys and the Great Storm of 1703
• Death by Words: Textual Geography of Suicides, Drownings and Killings in the Bills of Mortality
• Found Dead? Unknown Causes of Death in the Bills of Mortality
• Kild by a Blast of Gunpowder
• Of Fires Great and Small
• Old Age and Aged Deaths
• Strangled himself (being distracted): Messy Data and Suicides in the Bills of Mortality

Monarchical Bills of Mortality

• Infant Mortality in the Monarchical Bills of Mortality, 1665-1669
• Death by Numbers: the Monarchical Bills of Mortality, 1665-1669

Other Analyses

• Analyzing the Arithmetic of the Bills
• Comparing the Bills of Mortality and Old Bailey Proceedings
• London, 1665: Living in a Deathtrap