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Death by Numbers

Transcribing and using the Bills of Mortality to investigate how lived experiences of plague outbreaks intersected with an emerging quantitative mentality among the people of early modern England.

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Bills of Mortality is generously funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.