The Great Fire famously started at Thomas Farriner ... along with 51 smaller churches. The Rebuilding of London Act of 1666 also invited new ideas and schemes for the rebuilding of the city.

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago.

Maureen then takes us back through time to introduce one of her ancestors, a rat living in London in 1666 at the time of The Great Fire of London. Pupils will learn about the causes of The Fire ...

The Great Fire of London in 1666 changed people's attitude and helped standardise urban firefighting. After the fire property developer Nicholas Barbon introduced the first kind of insurance cover ...

It was then destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666, at which point the old structure was razed in favor of the new St Paul’s, which still stands today. Astonishingly, it was left ...

It's also a survivor: Although an older incarnation burnt during the Great Fire of London in 1666, the current dome (designed by Sir Christopher Wren and officially completed in 1711) survived ...