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What was sweating sickness – the mysterious Tudor plague of Wolf Hall?

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What was sweating sickness – the mysterious Tudor plague of Wolf Hall? / Gatherer, Derek.
In: The Conversation, 06.02.2015.

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Gatherer, D 2015, 'What was sweating sickness – the mysterious Tudor plague of Wolf Hall?' The Conversation. <https://theconversation.com/what-was-sweating-sickness-the-mysterious-tudor-plague-of-wolf-hall-37194>

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Gatherer, D. (2015). What was sweating sickness – the mysterious Tudor plague of Wolf Hall? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/what-was-sweating-sickness-the-mysterious-tudor-plague-of-wolf-hall-37194

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Gatherer D. What was sweating sickness – the mysterious Tudor plague of Wolf Hall? The Conversation. 2015 Feb 6.

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Gatherer, Derek. / What was sweating sickness – the mysterious Tudor plague of Wolf Hall?. In: The Conversation. 2015.

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