The London Bills of Mortality make an excellent resource to use in a classroom environment and are appropriate for students grades 8-12, undergraduates, and graduates. You may find below a poster presentation on using the bills in the classroom and a link to the prototype of a text-based adventure game to survive the Great Plague of 1665.

• Early Modern Death in the 21st Century Classroom
• Gaming the Great Plague of London
• Lynda Payne, Long Teaching Module: Children’s Health in Early Modern England

Lesson Plans

• Dan Howlett, Humanities Data with Death By Numbers Lesson Plan
• Dan Howlett, Urban Plague with Death By Numbers Lesson Plan