Dr Kat and the Great Fire of London

Описание: CORRECTION: I mistakenly refer to the Staffordshire Hoard as the Sutton Hoo hoard during this video - I am choosing to blame this conflation on the fact that I am very excited about (hopefully...pandemic permitting) getting to see the Staffordshire Hoard being displayed at Sutton Hoo this year!

Thanks to everyone who suggested I look at the Stuarts on this channel... today we're doing just that. We're exploring the Great Fire of London of 1666!

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [   • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyright Mu...  ]

Links to relevant texts:
John Evelyn’s diary: https://books.google.co.uk/books/abou...


Samuel Pepys’ diary: https://www.pepysdiary.com/


Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Google Maps satellite screenshot with Pudding Lane marked by red pin.

“The Great Fire of London", with Ludgate and Old St. Paul’s, by an unknown artist (c.1670). Held by the Yale Center for British Art.

Still of a reconstructed 17th-century street taken from    • Pudding Lane Productions, Crytek Off The Map  

“The Great Fire of London” by an unknown artist (1675). Held by the Museum of London.

Leather fire bucket of the type used during the 17th century. Image hosted at https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum...

Modern fire-axe, photographed by Fotokannan.

Firehooks are used to help tear down buildings to stop fires from spreading as seen during a fire at Tiverton in Devon, England, 1612. The image was scanned from Adrian Tinniswood, By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London (London: Jonathan Cape, 2003), pp. 76–77.

Illustration from the trade card of John Keeling of Blackfriars (1670s), showing his fire engine in use. Four men pumped water into a hose at the centre. Inscription reads "These Engins (which are the best) to quinch great fires, are ..." with the subtitle "John Keeling Fecit" (John Keeling made it). Copy from Pepys Library in Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Map of central London in 1666, showing landmarks related to the Great Fire of London. Drawn by Bunchofgrapes in Corel Draw, using public domain Image:Map.London.gutted.1666.jpg as both a reference and background.

Detail of Old London Bridge from "View of London Bridge" by Claude de Jongh (1632)

Woodcut showing Robert Hubert, from the collection of the Museum of London.

An illustration of the permanent gallows at Tyburn, which stood where Marble Arch now stands. This necessitated a three-mile cart ride in public from Newgate prison to the gallows. Huge crowds collected on the way and followed the accused to Tyburn. They were used as the gallows for London offenders from the 16th century until 1759 (1680). Held by the National Archives.

Image of body collecting during the plague in London 1665, image reproduced at https://theconversation.com/plague-ou...

Portrait of Richard Cromwell by an unknown artist (c.1650 —1655). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Charles II of England in Coronation robes by John Michael Wright (c.1661-1662). Held by the Royal Collection.

The execution of King Charles I by an unknown artist (c.1649). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

James II of England, then Duke of York by John Riley (1660s). Held by the Ashmolean Museum.

Portrait of Samuel Pepys by John Hayls (1666). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of John Evelyn by Robert Walker (1648). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Christopher Wren: Ichnographia urbis Londinii… (A Plan of the City of London, after the great FIRE, in the Year of Our Lord 1666.) From Geographicus Fine Antique Maps.

An aerial view of St Paul's Cathedral taken and shared by Mark Fosh.