In May, I was delighted to be included in the London Bills of Mortality Symposium convened by the Folger Shakespeare Library and organized by Vanessa Harding and Kristen Heitman. The event brought together eminent plague scholars, including Paul Slack, Vanessa Harding, Richelle Munkhoff, Rebecca Totaro, Mark Jenner and Margaret Pelling, amongst many others, to examine the London Bills of Mortality. The material covered over the two-day symposium saw attendees examining in th