Standing tall at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, the Monument to the Great Fire of London is a striking ...

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: The ancient Lady will topple from her ...

The Great Fire of London in 1666, which razed 436 acres of the mostly-timber city and lasted for four days, was so devastating it secured its place in the history books. But a key part of this ...

The Great Fire of London by Josepha Jane Battlehooke (1675). Credit: Museum of London If you had been in London on September 2, 1666, the chances are you'd remember exactly where you were and who ...

Rat: How did The Great Fire of London start? (SINGS) Something’s burning, something’s burning. Fetch the ketchup, fetch the ketchup… BBQ! BBQ! It’s burnt and it’s crispy.Before ovens ...

To stop the Great Fire, a firebreak was created using gunpowder to blow up houses in the path of the blaze. Image: Pic: Museum of London Image: Pic: Museum of London A total of 13,200 houses were ...

The Great Fire of London in 1666 saw a medieval warren of closely-packed wooden buildings, muddy lanes, and open workshops replaced by a grid of wide paved streets, stately stone townhouses ...

1966 marks the tercentenary of the Great Fire of London. In reading descriptions of this fire, I was impressed by the facts that only four people died directly as a result of the fire and that ...

The Great New York Fire is a vivid example of Americans’ impulse to bury the ugliest parts of our origins. We tend to forget that the Revolution was a chaotic civil war, filled with trauma and ...

Kate Loveman received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for this research. If you had been in London on September 2 1666, the chances are you’d remember exactly where you ...