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"If you had been in London on September 2 1666, the chances are you’d remember
exactly where you were and who you were with. This was the day the Great Fire
began, sweeping across the city for almost five days.
The Museum of London is due to open a new site in 2026. And in preparation for
this, curators of the Great Fire gallery decided to examine the stories of
everyday Londoners.
As I’d been working with the museum on a project about teaching the Great Fire
in schools, I was asked by Meriel Jeater, curator of the Great Fire displays,
if I could help research the lives of these Londoners. Top of our list for
investigation were the residents of Thomas Farriner’s bakery in Pudding Lane,
where the fire began.
There has been lots of excellent work on the Great Fire but, because of
ambiguities in the surviving sources, historians have different conclusions
about who was in the bakery. Farriner, his wife, children and anonymous
servants were among the people mentioned in modern accounts. But it was quickly
clear I needed to go back to the manuscript evidence to find answers."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
