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Great Fire of London

Death & Disasters

The Great Fire of London - Taken from the West just beyond Essex Stairs

The Great Fire of London

In 1666 an "infinite fire” consumed the city

Death & Disasters

A plan of the City and Liberties of London after the dreadful conflagration in the year 1666

How the Great Fire caused a London housing crisis

Rent rises, homelessness and migration to the suburbs

Death & Disasters

Coloured version of opening pages of Shlohavot, or, The burning of London in the year 1666

Three myths about the Great Fire of London

No, the fire didn’t stop the plague

Death & Disasters

The Great Fire of London crop

A Spanish view of the Great Fire of London

A 1666 report shows the fire made international news

Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus or The Severall Habits of English Women, from the Nobilitie to the Country Woman, as They are in These Times crop crop

Wenceslaus Hollar’s etchings of fashion & fire

A 17th-century recorder of women’s clothes and London's skyline

Death & Disasters

Two dead women great plague 1665 R Pollard II_Wellcome Collection Public Domain

The Great Plague of 1665

An estimated 100,000 people died in London’s last major plague epidemic