This short edition is the essential guide to the Great Fire of London and includes first-hand descriptions from the diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, as well as a gripping account from renowned historian Adrian Tinniswood. In the five days that followed it grew into a conflagration that would devastate the third largest city in the Western world. 2 SEPTEMBER 1666: 350 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL 3JD HBJD1 HBLH. In English, we will use our History knowledge to write a newspaper report and a diary entry in the style of Samuel Pepys before writing instructions about how. This is a guide to the Great Fire of London and includes first-hand descriptions from the diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane.
This unique guide not only teaches us about the seventeenth century but makes us look with fresh eyes at the modern world.Description for The Great Fire of London: The Essential Guide Mass Market Paperback. It is the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II - the civil wars are over and a magnificent new era has begun.īut what would it really be like to live in Restoration Britain? Where would you stay and what would you eat? How much should you pay for one of those elaborate wigs? Should you trust a physician who advises you to drink fresh cow's urine to cure your gout? Why are boys made to smoke in school? And why are you unlikely to get a fair trial in court? The third volume in the series of Ian Mortimer's bestselling Time Traveller's Guides answers these crucial questions and encourages us to reflect on the customs and practices of daily life.
He woke a few hours later to reports that the fire had consumed hundreds of houses. If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. The Great Fire of London and Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703 Samuel Pepys too was awoken to reports of a fire a few hundred yards away but thought it not worth bothering about and also returned to sleep. The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook. Daniel Mays portrays Pepys in The Great Fire, a 2014 BBC television miniseries.
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