Six students from De Montfort University manage to rebuild London as it was before the 1666 blaze, in glorious 3D. In 1666 a terrible blaze brought London to its knees and destroyed much of the city, ...

The City of London – the area mainly inside the Roman walls – was the economic engine of the capital in the mid-17th century, just as it is today. So it was all the more devastating when, just after ...

Did you know that Pudding Lane turns into a 'secret' aerial walkway? And it leads to a magnificent Thames view. Generations of Londoners have stood before the Monument and thought "I'll climb these ...

If you had been in London on September 2 1666, the chances are you’d remember exactly where you were and who you were with. This was the day the Great Fire began, sweeping across the city for almost ...

The first person to raise the alarm about the Great Fire of London has been revealed for the first time. The Museum of London has identified Thomas Dagger, a journeyman baker on Pudding Lane, as the ...

Six students from De Montfort University won first prize in the Off The Map challenge when they turned maps of seventeenth century London into a detailed 3D world. The challenge was sponsored by ...

Metropolis isn’t sure that Le Pain Quotidien can quite claim to be a phoenix rising from the ashes of London’s most famous fire, but just three-and-a-half centuries after its original bakery flamed ...

The first witness of the Great Fire of London has been revealed for the first time as Thomas Dagger, a journeyman baker on Pudding Lane. Museum of London research has conclusively identified Dagger ...

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 were invented all ...

LONDON – One of the more entertaining ways to pass time on this city’s extensive public transport system is to search the transit map for station names so whimsically quaint they would fit nicely into ...