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 ...
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 were and ...