If I could Put a Plaque Anywhere in London...

Honestly, glad to have taken a little breather so I could finally finish this video, which I've been working on for at least two years!! Thanks so much to Keith Moore at the Royal Society and Spencer Weinreich (who is a historian of prisons!!) for taking the time to chat with me so I could get deeper into this story. CREDITS! Videographer for the Royal Society Stuff James Hennessy Lady Mary's Voice Rosianna Halse Rojas Music The Harmonious Blacksmith George Frideric Handel Wandering Soul Gabriel Lewis Strings in Solitude 2 Hanna Ekström See the Conquering Hero Comes George Frideric Handel SOURCESSSS Ann Tompion: crime, trial, death sentence, pregnancy, pardon/transportation, etc Old Bailey, Trial of Thomas and Ann Tompion (honestly the whole thing is worth reading...it's a much longer record than most!) https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t17201012-5 Old Bailey records: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ Spencer J. Weinreich, “Unaccountable Subjects,” esp. pp. 23–30, note 128: https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article/89/1/22/5687228 Newgate Prison / Old Bailey London Museum, History of Newgate Prison: https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/history-londons-newgate-prison/ City of London, Central Criminal Court: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-governance/central-criminal-court Plague of Athens Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Thuc.%202.47 “the same man was never attacked twice, never at least fatally” https://cts.perseids.org/read/greekLit/tlg0003/tlg001/perseus-eng6/2.51.1-2.51.6 What caused it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7118959/ Smallpox / variolation background CDC, About Smallpox: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/about/index.html CDC, History of Smallpox: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/about/history.html WHO, History of Smallpox Vaccination: https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-smallpox-vaccination NLM, Variolation: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html Arthur Boylston, “The Origins of Inoculation”: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3407399/ Early inoculation Royal Society, West Africans / Onesimus: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2020/10/west-africans-and-the-history-of-smallpox-inoculation/ James Jurin on Welsh inoculation: https://catalog.folger.edu/record/822425 Royal Society, Chinese insufflation / smallpox archive: https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/in-focus/smallpox-in-the-archives Lady Mary Wortley Montagu “The smallpox so fatal...” Letter from Adrianople, 1717: https://cyh.rrchnm.org/primary-sources/157.html Royal Society, Lady Mary’s Letters: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2024/04/lady-marys-letters/ Biography: Anita Desai's introduction to The Turkish Embassy Letters (Little, Brown, 1994). Royal Society on Maitland inoculating her son and earlier Royal Society reports: https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/in-focus/smallpox-in-the-archives Charles Maitland / Newgate experiment / James Keith / Elizabeth Harrison Charles Maitland, Mr. Maitland’s Account of Inoculating the Small Pox (1722), incl. pp. 19–20 on Elizabeth Harrison: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_mr-maitlands-account-o_maitland-charles-surge_1722 Weinreich, pp. 24–30: https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article/89/1/22/5687228 Old Bailey prisoner records: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ Ruth / Richard Mead Richard Mead, A Discourse on the Small Pox and Measles, pp. 88–89: https://archive.org/ Public controversy, clergy, and party politics Weinreich, esp. pp. 29–33: https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article/89/1/22/5687228 Edmund Massey, A Sermon Against the Dangerous and Sinful Practice of Inoculation (1722): https://archive.org/ I didn't have a copy but Weinreich cites David Parrish, “A Party Contagion”: https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12216 Inoculation mortality statistics James Jurin statistics summarized by Royal Society: https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/in-focus/smallpox-in-the-archives Nurse developing pustules after exposure James Jurin, “An Account of a Remarkable Instance of the Infection of the Small Pox”: https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_11_62/an-account-of-a-remarkable-instance-of-the-infection-of-the-small-pox-by-james-jurin