Following the success of Downton Abbey and Mr Selfridge, ITV have commissioned The Great Fire of London, a four-part drama. By Alice Vincent 26 April 2013 • 11:02pm Samuel Pepys will feature in ...

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It’s one of the key historical events you learn about at school, but it’s easy to forget exactly what happened during the Great Fire of London. We spoke to the Museum of London for a quick ...

THE Great Fire of London ripped through the capital’s wooden-built City for four days and destroyed thousands of homes in 1666. Here’s what you need to know about the devastating blaze.… ...

Discover facts about the Great Fire of London which devastated the heart of England's capital in 1666. ... A City Full of People: Men and Women of London 1650-1750 by P. Earle (1994) ...

If you had been in London on September 2 1666, the chances are you’d remember exactly where you were and who you were with. This was the day the Great Fire began, sweeping across the city for ...

The Great Fire of London, 1666. One of his quatrains appeared to eerily predict the Great Fire of London: “The blood of the just will be lacking in London, Burnt up in the fire of ‘66: ...

Marking the Great Fire of London might seem an unusual celebration for any of us to get involved with. After all, the blaze which ended 350 years ago today in Pudding Lane ripped the heart out of ...

This four-part drama tells the story of Thomas Farriner, whose humble bakery on Pudding Lane was blamed for sparking the Great Fire of London – a raging inferno that destroyed around 13,000 ...

The person who is thought to have first raised the alarm about a blaze at a bakery that became the Great Fire of London has been identified. The fire, which began in Thomas Farriner's property in ...

Fires happened fairly regularly in 17th century London and so there were regimented responses set in place. On the fateful night in 1666, bands of fire-fighting men would have appeared in Pudding ...