Great Fire of London
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Myth of the London Fire
London had fires all the time. It's not unusual for a fire to break out in London. And again, seeing it as a form of divine judgment brings an element of control because if there's something they did wrong and this happened, then they can do something right and it won't happen again. Whereas if it's just accidental, it's much more terrifying in some ways. What we do know though is that it went up to 1700 degrees. The Museum of London have done their science bit on some things that they found in the city from that time. There are gaps when it comes to records of infants being impotted into the parish data. We don't know how many people died
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