🎧 The Great Fire of London
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit • 21m
Rebecca Rideal is an author, editor of History Vault, and a PhD candidate. Here she discusses the Great Fire of London, the subject of her book '1666: Plague, War and Hellfire'.
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