Rat: How did The Great Fire of London start? (SINGS) Something’s burning, something’s burning. Fetch the ketchup, fetch the ketchup… BBQ! BBQ! It’s burnt and it’s crispy.Before ovens ...

Three short animations exploring The Great Fire of London of 1666 - the causes of The Fire, what happened during The Fire and how the city was rebuilt afterwards. 1. Why did The Great Fire of ...

Adrian Tinniswood is an adjunct professor of history at Maynooth University and the author of “By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London.” In early September 1666, ...

THE tercentenary of the Great Fire of London (September 2–5, 1666) has given rise to discussion of the incidental meteorological factors. Atallah 1 compares the London fire with that at Hamburg ...

Similarly, the Great Fire of London in 1666, which began in a bakery on Pudding Lane, wiped out 80 per cent of the city. While it was devastating, it also got rid of areas affected by plague leading ...

For the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, Horrible Histories returns for a one-off special looking at the disaster and the events that surrounded it. On the night of September 2nd, a ...

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 ...

“Great Fire of 1881” the marker read, followed by a 90-word summation of one of the deadliest — perhaps the deadliest — fire events in Michigan history. Snyder is a historian who knows a ...

On Ascension Day, Thursday June 1, 1848, the great fire occurred, which occasioned a loss of $250,000 to citizens of Allentown and others. The alarm of fire was heard in the afternoon during ...

In a new book — London's Lost Pubs — Sam Cullen goes on a epic crawl of over 200 of the most interesting erstwhile boozers, ...

The most devastating wildfire in Los Angeles history continues to burn, evoking comparisons to The Great Chicago Fire that decimated the Windy City more than 150 years ago. According to Los ...

Though separated by nearly 150 years, the “Great Fire of 1881″ in Michigan shares striking similarities with the fires still burning across Los Angeles, Snyder said.