![]() ![]() If audience enthusiasm encourages then there will be more on the way. It was a good learning process and great fun to make. This podcast was recorded shortly afterward and I have been waiting for September to come round again before releasing it. Perhaps the reason why the decade of the 1660s has always particularly stood out for me in this century of turmoil and destruction, regicide and renewal, is the remarkable record passed down to us by the diaries of Samuel Pepys.Īs some of you may know, I spent much of the first lockdown of 2020 recording readings on The London Storyteller’s youtube channel from Pepys’s dairies during the Great Plague of 1665. London would never be the same again and today. In September 1666, the Great Fire of London tore through and devastated the city creating a watershed in its history. With a special focus on Samuel Pepys and his Diary which has been a very useful resource for understanding what the Fire was like and the impacts that the fire. The Great Fire of London in September 1666 is one of the reasons why, though perhaps I should write “most fascinating” rather than “best” when one thinks of its devastation. ![]() ![]() I have often described the 17th century as the best century in history. ![]()
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