Dr Kat and the Great Fire of London
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2020
- 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 Part... ]
Links to relevant texts:
John Evelyn’s diary: books.google.co.uk/books/abou...
Samuel Pepys’ diary: 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 Productio...
“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 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 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.
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!
Sat with my 8 yr old grandson listening to you talk about the Great Fire of London. He was fascinated, maybe the start of an interest in history for him?
Lol! "Lady wee is far inferior for fire extinguishing."
Thank God for Pepys' Diary and the humanity of the description. Hope he enjoyed the cheese!
This is going to sound weird but I liked hearing about the various conditions (i e the weather and buildings) that created the "perfect storm" for the fire. Thanks, Dr. Kat I always look forward to my Friday history lesson.
TGIF, it means Dr. Kat!!!! ♡
You are a wonderful teacher. I recently retired as a Special Education teacher but you and your videos have sparked a pleasure for history that I didn’t know was there. Wonder if I would have been as happy being a historian. Sending my gratitude and admiration from San José, Costa Rica.
Thanks, Dr. Kat. This is fascinating! Trying to imagine acres of molten lead on the streets really brought the scale of the disaster home to me. I think about all the medieval treasures lost, and all those books...but also of new St. Paul's; a gem among the world's most beautiful cathedrals.
The burying cheese and wine brought me back to a memory of learning about this in primary school that I didn't know I had
Samuel Pepys' diary entries were fascinating. His observations and descriptions of his own efforts to preserve his valuables echo what many of us might recount and do today if faced with a similar calamity. In fact, I recall moving my essential documents and valuables to my car on the night a fire broke out in a house near my home. I can certainly see myself burying them in my backyard however! Thankfully, the fire was quickly extinguished, and the rest (as they say) is history.
“As we all know Lady Wee is not an effective fire extinguisher” is now my favorite phrase 😂🤣😂
1666!Bizarre Number!
Several years ago, when bushfires were raging near my home in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, I went out on the deck first thing in the morning to check the progress of the fires during the night, and found a layer of ash all over the floor. This was nothing new- bushfires were a yearly occurrence near my home, but when I looked closer, I saw the remnants of print on many of the pieces of ash. Someone had just lost all their books. Nothing compared to lives and habitat, but still, I will never forget the sadness I felt seeing that ashy print. Fast forward to 2020, and it seems we had the Great Fires of Australia before the plague. Trust Down Under to get it backwards. 😏
Your videos are the best part of my Fridays, Dr. Kat. :)
I hate to think of all the animals that must have been trapped; after people, they are my greatest concern in fires.
Dramatic, huge tragedies are usually caused by a series of small events. The costs are under reported. Rebuilding is rarely ever finished as populations move elsewhere.
Ah, what a lost treasure trove of books!
"Lady wee" hahahahahaha!! Awesome! Thanks for doing this video. I love history and your videos are interesting, informative, and entertaining.
The part that fascinates me and baffles my mind most is the idea of a merchant evacuating his property and securing his wine and cheese elsewhere, over the course of several days, and then going home to sleep on that very property in the meantime. That takes a certain kind of chill.
Great video, Dr. Kat! I've seen several documentaries on this topic. It never ceases to amaze me how people can utterly lose their senses in such a situation. The story of people attacking and killing a woman who was carrying baby chicks in her apron horrifies me. They had gotten it into their heads that she was carrying fireballs and was spreading the fire.