If audience enthusiasm encourages then there will be more on the way. Samuel Pepyss description of the Great Fire of London is considered the most vivid contemporary account of the event. It was a good learning process and great fun to make. The Great Fire of London in 1666 was a year after the Great Plague in London that killed over 75000 people, compared to the 6 that died in the fire. Samuel Pepys' was a member of Parliament for Tory's, but was most famous for his Diary. This podcast was recorded shortly afterward and I have been waiting for September to come round again before releasing it. 350 years ago on the 2nd September 1666, the Great Fire of London began, causing significant destruction throughout the city. Places where the fire broke out: 'the bridge'/'St. Perhaps the reason why the decade of the 1660s has always particularly stood out for me in this century of turmoil and destruction, regicide and renewal, is the remarkable record passed down to us by the diaries of Samuel Pepys.Īs some of you may know, I spent much of the first lockdown of 2020 recording readings on The London Storyteller’s youtube channel from Pepys’s dairies during the Great Plague of 1665. London would never be the same again and today. Experience life through Samuel Pepys diary as he witnesses some of historys great events, including the Great Fire of London and. In September 1666, the Great Fire of London tore through and devastated the city creating a watershed in its history.

The Great Fire of London in September 1666 is one of the reasons why, though perhaps I should write “most fascinating” rather than “best” when one thinks of its devastation. The first is Samuel Pepys, who worked for the Navy. Two people have left us eyewitness accounts of the fire. I have often described the 17th century as the best century in history. Surprisingly, only nine people died as a result of the fire.

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