Description: Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. In the early modern period, accidental and 'disorderly' deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, and animals and vehicles, among others - were a regular feature of urban life.
Review Quotes: A much-needed, meticulously researched, critical study [that] provides thought-provoking and pioneering scholarship in a more complex than previously anticipated field of study.-- "HISTORY"