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Websites
The London Gazette: The Great Fire of London
www.adelpha.com/~davidco/History/fire1.htm
Facsimile of the 3-10 September 1666 edition of the London Gazette,
describing the Great Fire in true 17th-century detail.
Pepys' London
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/
exhibits/pepys/pages/home.asp
Excellent website that covers all things Pepysian, including the Great Fire.
To locate the website, go to 'Exhibitions' -> 'Past exhibitions' -> 'Pepys'
London'.
Online Diary of Ralph Josselin from 1617 to 1671
http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/
diary/index.htm#70000005
The diary of the vicar of Earls Colne in Essex, one of the richest sources
for 17th-century English social history, talks about the Great Fire and
its impact.
The 'Invitation to the Funeral' Tour
www.okima.com/tour/index.html
Billed as 'A free-style jaunt around Restoration London inspired by
the novel Invitation to a Funeral by Molly Brown' (see Explore
the period more), this site contains information on a wide variety
of places in London in the latter part of the 17th century, as well as
details of Restoration food (including recipes), fashion and personalities.
Books
 The Great Fire of London by Stephen Porter (Sutton, 2001)
Porter
examines the background to the events leading up to the Great Fire and
describes the rapid reconstruction of the City that followed.
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 The Dreadful Judgement: The true story of the Great Fire of
London by Neil Hanson (Black Swan, 2002)
A panorama of the Great Fire
of London and the human stories of those who lived through it.
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 The London Rich: The creation of a great city, from 1666 to the
present by Peter Thorold (Penguin, 2001)
Thorold looks at the rebuilding
of London after the Great Fire and gives an account of social history
from 1666 to the present.
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 Ingenious Pursuits by Lisa Jardine (Abacus, 2000)
A meticulous
and sympathetic reimagining of the lives of early scientists in the late
17th century. Individual stories include Hooke and Wren's scheme to fashion
out of a London rebuilt after the Great Fire a great laboratory, stocked
with monumental telescopes.
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