Today @HomeMcr is opening its Our Plague Year exhibition for #ArtComesHOME – we can’t wait! An auspicious day for it too… do you want to know the story of ALICE RAG? A thread 1/

#OTD Alice Rag, 25th of the #EyamPlague dead, was buried. She was less than a year old. Her gravestone is the only named one in our collection 2/

It’s currently being treated by @HConversation – expected back next year! Here they are! Date on stone doesn’t match parish register date 23 Oct 1665. Discrepancy probably because it will have been put up some time after. Rag is sometimes spelt Ragg/Ragge in the records too 3/

Alice’s 11 year-old brother Jonathan and father George died a few days either side of her. Three years earlier, George had sold some land to Thomas Talbott for 25 shillings. Here is the indenture /4

Alice's stone was found under the post office floor in 1963. The #EyamPlague dead were buried all over the village in gardens & fields while the churchyard was closed due to the #quarantine. Most just had markers like these from our collection, if any /5

Want to find out more? Visit Eyam and look round our museum! Pre-book here: http://bit.ly/3nLh8cN  /6

No actual gravestones were harmed in the making of this thread. Alice's stone was found in two pieces under that post office floor 60 years ago! /7