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Just visit history.com slash subscribe. In the early hours of the 2nd of September 1666, a small fire broke out

a little bakery in Pudding Lane, London. Within five days, that fire had destroyed the

vast majority of one of the largest cities in Europe,

if not the world. It was a catastrophe, the great fire of London. Exactly what happened

that week in 1666. Well, here to tell you all about it is Adrian Tenniswood. He's a historian. He's a

teacher. He's a writer. He's a consultant for National Trust over here in the UK. And he's written a book called By Permission of Heaven, the Story of the Great Fire of London. And we're going to get into it. We're going to find out why it happened, how it happened, just how bad the damage was, and what it meant for London, which was fascinatingly on the threshold of becoming pretty much the biggest and

richest city on earth. So it comes a remarkable time in London story, and it's rather

impressive that the city goes from being obliterated to a position of global hegemony in the

space of a generation. This is a classic episode of Dan Snow's history here. We're re-sharing

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