Vanessa Harding

Vanessa Harding is Professor of London History at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research and writing focus on the social history of early modern London, circa 1500–1700, and especially on family and household, environment, health and disease, death and burial. She is the author of The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500–1670 and is currently working on a book-length study of seventeenth-century London, and developing a project to map London on the eve of the Great Fire.