In 1665, one year before the Great Fire of London, Newport was already a thriving market town with narrow streets filled by homes mostly made of wood. Tragedy struck on the afternoon of Friday ...

Discover the echoes of the past as we delve into the remnants of the Great Fire of London. 🔥 Join me on this journey through history and see how the resilient city rose from the ashes.

Adrian Tinniswood is an adjunct professor of history at Maynooth University and the author of “By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London.” In early September 1666, ...

Yet, unlike the London fire of 1666 – immortalised in a children’s nursery rhyme – few people are familiar with the terrible events which would come to be known as the Great Fire of Edinburgh.

Photograph by Crossrail Ltd The discovery comes as London marks the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, whose cleansing flames have long been popularly credited with stamping out the ...

The Museum of London is due to open a new site in 2026. And in preparation for this, curators of the Great Fire gallery decided to examine the stories of everyday Londoners. As I'd been working ...

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 ...

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 almost ...

Big cities don’t tend to burn on the scale they did in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, when conflagrations levelled vast swaths of London (1666), Moscow (1812), New York ...

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 first person to raise the alarm about a blaze that became the Great Fire of London has been revealed 357 years after the inferno. It is widely known the fire began at Thomas Farriner's bakery ...