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The Great Fire of London
www.hinchbk.cambs.sch.uk/diaries/fire.html
Relevant extracts from the diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.
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.
A History of London's Firefighters
www.jmccall.demon.co.uk/history/page2.htm
Concise account of the Great Fire. Elsewhere on the site is information
on the formation of the Metropolitan (London) Fire Brigade.
Museum of London Picture Library
http://www.museum-london.org.uk/
MOLsite/gallery/change6.htm
Online images of London during the 17th century, which show the difference
made by the Great Fire of 1666.
Guildhall Library and Art Gallery
http://collage.nhil.com/collagedev/categories/history.html
Has some 17th-century images of the Great Fire.
Online Diary of Ralph Josselin from 1617 to 1671
www-earlscolne.socanth.cam.ac.uk/docs/diary
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/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) £8.99
Porter examines the background to the events leading up to the Great Fire
and describes the rapid reconstruction of the City that followed.
The Dreadful Judgement: The true story of the Great Fire of London
by Neil Hanson (Doubleday, 2001) £16.99
A panorama of the Great Fire of London and the human stories of those
who lived through it.
The London Rich: The creation of a great city, from 1666 to the present
by Peter Thorold (Penguin, 2001) £12.99
Thorold looks at the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire and gives
an account of social history from 1666 to the present.
Ingenious Pursuits by Lisa Jardine (Abacus, 2000) £15
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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