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Diary of Samuel Pepys shows how life under the bubonic plague mirrored today's pandemic

  • Written by Ute Lotz-Heumann, Heiko A. Oberman Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History, University of Arizona
Diary of Samuel Pepys shows how life under the bubonic plague mirrored today's pandemicThere were eerie similarities between Pepys' time and our own.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary.

“Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will provide a valuable window into this period.”

During a different pandemic, one...

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