The rebuilding of London after the fire was a monumental task that required careful planning and collaboration. New building ...

It has been 350 years since the Great Fire tore through London. As the city marks the anniversary, we take a look back at how it all unfolded and who was to blame.

The 1666 fire burnt for four days and destroyed 13,200 houses, leaving at least 70,000 of the City of London’s inhabitants homeless (out of a population of 80,000). It consumed 87 churches as ...

They had a choice of three different maps: The Pyramids of Giza, Wiltshire's Stonehenge, or London around the time of the Great Fire in 1666. They only had 14 weeks to complete the task and just ...

The bakery itself has always been identified as the starting point of the Great Fire, and Farriner's home and workplace was the first of more than 13,000 to be destroyed by the blaze.

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.