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Showing posts with label great fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label great fire. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Great Fire of London

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History Extra On 5 September 1666, the 33-year-old Samuel Pepys climbed the steeple of the ancient church of All Hallows-by-the-Tower a...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Everything you know about 17th-century London is wrong

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History Extra Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, 1605. Contrary to popular belief, Guy Fawkes was not executed for masterminding ...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Great Fire of London

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History Extra Great Fire of London, September 1666. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) ...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Coffee, plague and the Great Fire: the pleasures and perils of Restoration London

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History Extra Great Plague of 1665, London. Contemporary engraving. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images) Two of the great...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

History Trivia - Great fire of Rome - Nero fiddles

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July 18 390 BC Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia – a Roman army was defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking...
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