The Great Fire of London

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      How the Great Fire started, spread and was fought.
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      Most of the medieval City of London was swept away by the Great Fire. Rebuilding took many years.
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      How did Londoners experience the fire and how did their lives change as a result?
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      The social background to the fire and its repercussions across the country and the world.
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Painting: ‘Sir Hugh Wyndham, Judge of the Common Pleas’, 1670

Painting: ‘Sir Hugh Wyndham, Judge of the Common Pleas’, 1670

Painting: ‘The Great Fire of London, 1666’ by an unknown artist after Waggoner

Painting: ‘The Great Fire of London, 1666’ by an unknown artist after Waggoner

Painting: ‘The Monument from Gracechurch Street’

Painting: ‘The Monument from Gracechurch Street’

Painting: ‘The Ceremony of Administering the Mayoralty Oath to Nathaniel Newnham, November 8 1782’

Painting: ‘The Ceremony of Administering the Mayoralty Oath to Nathaniel Newnham, November 8 1782’

Portrait of Samuel Pepys

Portrait of Samuel Pepys

Painting: ‘The Great Fire of London 1666’

Painting: ‘The Great Fire of London 1666’

Painting imagining the fire

Painting imagining the fire

Painting: Watercolour of Clifford’s Inn

Painting: Watercolour of Clifford’s Inn

Plan of Pudding Lane

Plan of Pudding Lane

A 17th-century fire being extinguished

A 17th-century fire being extinguished

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