London was burning again tonight - 350 years after the Great Fire tore the heart out of the British capital. A 400ft wooden model went up in flames on the River Thames to mark the anniversary ...

The children have been leaning about what London was like before the Great Fire. “We made big models in the biggest boxes that we could find and made them into buildings. They were all accurate ...

Track down the key sites, commemorations and even surviving fragments from the Great Fire of London. The Great Fire of London of 1666 needs little introduction. In one combustable nutshell ...

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 ...

The person who is thought to have first raised the alarm about a blaze at a bakery that became the Great Fire of London has been identified. The fire, which began in Thomas Farriner's property in ...

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 ...