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Author : Charles J. Shields
Publisher : Facts On File
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fires
ISBN : 0791063240
A detailed history of two disasters that befell London, England: the Great Plague of 1665 in which it is estimated that at least 70,000 died, and the Great Fire of 1666, which destroyed four-fifths of the city.
Author : Richard Tames
Publisher : Heinemann Library
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fires
ISBN : 0431068798
Designed to tie in with the National Curriculum, each of the four titles in the Turning Points in History series examines the events and effects of a major historical watershed. This book looks at the events of the Great Fire of London and its impact as a turning point in history.
Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1789430992
Samuel Pepys gives a unique first hand account of life during the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London. Pepys stayed in London while many of the wealthy fled the city in the face of the plague. His careful observation and interest in the details of people's lives as well as the events of the time are unparalleled.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1722
Category : Fires
ISBN : UOM:39015008802483
Author : John Langdon-Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0305603264
Author : M Q Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1840722770
Author : James Leasor
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755100408
Author : Walter George Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015017978514
Thomson, George.
Author : Stephen Porter
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752475707
The Great Fire of London was the greatest catastrophe of its kind in Western Europe. Although detailed fire precautions and fire-fighting arrangements were in place, the fire raged for four days and destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 churches and 44 of the City of London's great livery halls. The 'great fire' of 1666 closely followed by the 'great plague' of 1665; as the antiquary Anthony Wood wrote left London 'much impoverished, discontented, afflicted, cast downe'. In this comprehensive account, Stephen Porter examines the background to 1666, events leading up to and during the fire, the proposals to rebuild the city and the progress of the five-year programme which followed. He places the fire firmly in context, revealing not only its destructive impact on London but also its implications for town planning, building styles and fire precautions both in the capital and provincial towns.
Author : Neil Hanson
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470450703
Acclaim for The Great Fire of London "Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill." —Times Literary Supplement "The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson’s prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research." —The Daily Telegraph (London) "He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account." —The Sunday Times (London) "The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain." —Soho Independent "A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery." —The Brisbane News "A rollicking good yarn." —The Age (Melbourne) "Blends high-class original research with a narrative style that mimics fiction. . . . Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer." —New Zealand Herald "Neil Hanson’s descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo." —Camden New Journal "It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels–narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing." —Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)
Author : Pamela Oldfield
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407132914
A time of horror has come to London. In one terrible summer, more than 15% of its population will perish. As the bubonic plague ravages London's streets, mercilessly plucking up victims and filling the plague pits with corpses, 13-year-old Alice Paynton records the outbreak in her diary. "It seems that in the past week 700 people have died of the plague. So the plague has well and truly come to London... One of the houses in the next street had a red cross painted on the door. Above the cross someone had chalked Lord Have Mercy Upon Us." Alice's chilling diary brings alive one of the darkest moments in British history: the Great Plague of 1665-1666.
Author : Magdalena Alagna
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823944859
Recounts the events leading up to the 1666 fire that destroyed most of London, tracing its course and aftermath, as well as the city's recovery.
Author : Rebecca Rideal
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473623552
1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph. Based on original archival research and drawing on little-known sources, 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire takes readers on a thrilling journey through a crucial turning point in English history, as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary cast of historical characters. While the central events of this significant year were ones of devastation and defeat, 1666 also offers a glimpse of the incredible scientific and artistic progress being made at that time, from Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity to Robert Hooke's microscopic wonders. It was in this year that John Milton completed Paradise Lost, Frances Stewart posed for the now-iconic image of Britannia, and a young architect named Christopher Wren proposed a plan for a new London - a stone phoenix to rise from the charred ashes of the old city. With flair and style, 1666 shows a city and a country on the cusp of modernity, and a series of events that forever altered the course of history.
Author : Rhoda Nottridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fires
ISBN : 0750200480
Author : Gideon Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1769
Category : London (England)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0036698539