A new map shows how the Great Fire of London in 1666 would have ravaged 21st century London. It may have happened almost 400 ...

1666, 80% of medieval London burned to the ground in the largest fire in the city's history. The fire raged for more than three days, consuming huge swaths of the city, but the Great Fire of ...

The Great Fire of London in 1666, which razed 436 acres of the mostly-timber city and lasted for four days, was so devastating it secured its place in the history books. But a key part of this ...

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 ...

The Great Fire famously started at Thomas Farriner ... along with 51 smaller churches. The Rebuilding of London Act of 1666 also invited new ideas and schemes for the rebuilding of the city.

1966 marks the tercentenary of the Great Fire of London ... more widely separated than they were in the London of 1666, the Chicago fire was a much faster spreading and more destructive fire.

THE tercentenary of the Great Fire of London (September 2–5, 1666) has given rise to discussion of the incidental meteorological factors. Atallah 1 compares the London fire with that at Hamburg ...