Picture it: London, 1666, a city of narrow streets, timber-framed buildings, and a flickering candlelight. That year, the inevitable happened. A bakery mishap ignited the Great Fire of London, a blaze ...

On this day in 1666, the worst blazes of the Great Fire of London engulfed the City, creating, in the words of Samuel Pepys, “the saddest sight of desolation” he ever saw. Eliot Wilson tells us more ...

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago. Today, they remain landmark destinations. As Los Angeles approaches its own ...

He may have lived and died in the 16th century, but French astrologer and seer Michel de Nostradamus’s predictions have ...

Enamel Painter and Engraver, No. 54. Lombard-Street. [P. 3.] The Exhibition of the Columbianum, or American Academy of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, &c ...