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The Great Fire of London: how the ferocious blaze of 1666 destroyed the capital

A portrait of Samuel Pepys, English writer and diarist. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
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7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

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Coffee, plague and the Great Fire: the pleasures and perils of living in Restoration London

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An illustration depicting the Great Fire of London. (Getty Images)
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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Great Fire of London

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The Six-Day War and the Great Fire of London

The Great Fire - Presenters Rob Bell, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones.
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Video: Historian Dan Jones on the Great Fire of London 1666

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How the Great Fire of London revealed the city’s Roman past

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Everything you know about 17th-century London is wrong

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

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