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Video: Historian Dan Jones on the Great Fire of London 1666

Civil wars and Restoration England.

Scandal, conspiracy and the affair of the poisons: inside the court of Louis XIV.

Procession of Charles II between the Tower of London and Westminster on the eve of his coronation, 1661. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

1660: The year that changed everything.

Terracotta vicar and Moses, c1770, in the Victoria And Albert Museum, London. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Vicars on the liquor.

Bribes, gifts and scandal: 7 stories of corruption that shocked Britain.

King James II of England and VII of Scotland (1633 - 1701), c. 1680. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A king without a crown: James VII and II’s years in exile.

View of Algiers with mediterranean galleys, published in Johannes van Keulen's Dutch Atlas, 1709. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

When Britons were slaves in Africa

19 November 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers arriving on the Mayflower and landing in New England, where they founded the Plymouth Colony. Original artwork: painting by Charles Lucy. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

It is claimed that the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth but I’ve also heard that they started in Boston, Lincolnshire. Which is correct?

Lady Hall launches the British India Company passenger liner SS Uganda in Clydeside docks with the traditional bottle of champagne, 1952. The first time champagne was used to launch a ship was when Queen Victoria launched HMS Royal Arthur in 1891. (Photo by George Douglas/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we smash champagne bottles against new ships?.

Black British history and Charles I’s children.

Reporting from war zones.

The secrets of 6 of Britain’s most famous castles – with Dan Jones

Accidental explosions: gunpowder in Tudor and Stuart London.

An engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar depicting Old St Paul's on fire during the Great Fire of London, 1666. Frantic efforts to fight the flames quickly turned into an equally fevered search for a scapegoat. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The Library1666: when London burned with rage.

Johannes Vermeer's 'View of Delft’, 1661. (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

My favourite place: Delft, Netherlands

Everything you know about 17th-century London is wrong.

The Great Fire of London: two historians discuss the events and legacy of the 1666 blaze.

In the central image, leading Fifth Monarchists are executed on 19 January 1661 following the bloody failure of their uprising. Their leader, Thomas Venner, was hanged, drawn and quartered. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Soldiers of the Apocalypse.

Jacobites and the Ancient World.

A 1954 advertisement for Cooper's Y-Front. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A revealing history of underwear.

Sykes-Picot and a 17th-century polymath.

German astronomer Johannes Kepler c1620. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The astronomer and the witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight to save his mother from execution

Student life and working class culture.

Charles II entering London in May 1660 following the restoration of the monarchy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Clare Jackson"Charles II had to appeal to public opinion more than his predecessors did".

Charles II and an Atlantic experiment.

A giant leap for mankind: William Harvey reveals the circulation of the blood

Democracy and an age of genius.

A portrait of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty which ruled over much of India from 1526 to 1858. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

How people make the past.

The Holy Roman Empire and Capability Brown.