The Great Fire of London began in September 1666 in a bakery on Pudding Lane and quickly spread through the city’s tightly ...

The City of London – the area mainly inside the Roman walls – was the economic engine of the capital in the mid-17th century, just as it is today. So it was all the more devastating when, just after ...

Great explosions rang out in London’s Lower Thames Street: the sound of houses, shops, warehouses and taverns being blown up, a method intended to halt the spread of the seemingly unstoppable flames.

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 in ...

Explore The Great Fire of 1666 with these songs for 5 - 7 year olds and other video content which examine the causes of The Fire, what happened during The Fire and how the city was rebuilt afterwards.

Metropolis isn’t sure that Le Pain Quotidien can quite claim to be a phoenix rising from the ashes of London’s most famous fire, but just three-and-a-half centuries after its original bakery flamed ...

For more of all things London history, sign up for our new newsletter and community: Londonist: Time Machine. Track down the key sites, commemorations and even surviving fragments from the Great Fire ...

Six students from De Montfort University won first prize in the Off The Map challenge when they turned maps of seventeenth century London into a detailed 3D world. The challenge was sponsored by ...