🎧 Great Fire of London
🎧 Not Just the Tudors • 41m
Why do we call the Great Fire of London in 1666 “great”? Was it because of the significant challenge it posed to authorities and residents as they sought to bring it under control? Was it because of the extent of its devastation? Or
was it because it occurred during an eventful couple of years where plague and war also threatened lives?
In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to historian Rebecca Rideal, author of 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire, whose research has drawn on little known sources to set the Great Fire of London in the broader context of the political, social and economic events of the time.
This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.
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