The Great Fire Of London: Who Really Caused The Flames? | The Great Fire | Absolute History 

The Great Fire is why, 20 years later, William Penn made the Philadelphia streets wide with strategically placed squares for refuge.

Suzannah is my favorite!!

thats hot

Right in London and in a year ending in 666, hahahaha, yes of course. And I am the reincarnation of Queen Victoria.

Someone was keeping a dragon on their basement, and it started the fire, that’s why now it’s illegal to own a dragon in England.

How are we getting such a good show on RU-vid?

So let me get this straight, at the time some people failed to acknowledge the issue and died in their homes, and others blamed foreigners. It looks like things haven't really changed all that much since the 1600s.

Suzannah and Dan are real storyteller stars and together with Rob they are doing such a great team work but they should rename the documentary series to Absolute Thrilling History. The actors and actresses are doing their characters amazingly well. Can't wait for part 3!

Blaming foreigners is pretty much the default setting for any society.

How we are watching this content for free is beyond me! Excellent documentary and very well put together!

"Surprisingly, [...] people wanted to blame foreigners for starting the fire." Gurl... :|

One point of the nature of fire is that as a fire begins to grow, the hot air rising causes cold air to be drawn to the fire to replace the hot air, this replacement causes the fire to grow exponentially as the greater the hot air rising, the more the cold air is pulled in.

That watchmaker was literally the meme of the dog sitting at a table in a fire saying "this is fine"

Just finished the wonderful Victorian Baker series and I’m so glad to have found this series to feed my mini-doc appetite (despite the sad irony of bakeries in this one as a followup;;)

I really like parts with the nowadays demonstrations of the devastating power of the fire and the wind, these add so much to the understanding! Now I'm looking forward for the next part of the documentary.

"London,was built in the thirteenth century, mostly made of straw , and then a great fire came and nackered the lot." Steven Toast

Dr.Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones...two of my favorite presenters!!

Suzannah Lipscomb is the best!!! All the documentaries that I've watched with her have been fantastic, and I've rewatched them all several times. Love love love.

Hello I'm Thomas farriner the Baker from 1666 and I've cooked a lot of things in my time but now I'm gonna show you the thing I'm most famous for yes today I'm going to show you how to cook London ~Mat Baynton horrible histories

They should do a romantic disaster love story for the great fire of London like they did with Titanic lol.

these comments this is what having a crush on your professor mustve looked like

The concept of a firestorm was unheard of at the time, but that's what this sounds like.

I love Suzanne and Dan together! I always thought the Great Fire of London had shockingly low casualties. That famous English Reserve lead to an orderly Escape...

When the narrator said Charles in charge all I could think of was the them song from the 80's sitcom🤣

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6:30 I've watched Prof. Ronald Hudson in some of the "X.. Farm" episodes. I immediately thought of the actor who played Cedrick Diggory's father in Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire."

People set fire to a city, then, to avoid responsibility, blamed other people who have nothing to do with their plight? I feel like I've heard this story before.

Oooooh- thank you- didn't think that we would get part 2. Wish I could afford to pay. Thank you for this content.

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HOW are there not thousands and thousands of views on these???

People keep asking “Well, how do they know it was really the baker and not the guy that actually confessed?” First, they explained in the video BUT many people have confessed to crimes they didn’t commit, even if it means their certain death, for the attention and “fame” it brings, albeit momentarily. Many people confessed to being Jack The Ripper and The Zodiac Killer. This is not a new thing. The fact that the bakers signed that paper and said that this guy threw a fireball (lol a fireball) into their house when they were supposedly asleep already, its fishy enough for me.

I remember Nostradamus prophecised that it was a cursed for sacrificing a Kings life.

Things haven't changed. Recent foreigners are still being blamed for all disasters.

Waiter...... Can I have a spoon, said the inferno.

It makes me think that people were running in all directions trying to escape, not having that geographical/spatial knowledge since many didn't even travel more than 30km from their home/neighborhood. They would just follow a large group of people, running without even knowing if they were running away from the fire or towards it. Almost every street they turned, there would be someone running in the opposite direction yelling hysterically not to go that way, 'fire's coming.' They ran out of time trying to find which direction to go until they were surrounded by the fire coming at them from all directions. You would think people would know the fire was traveling west, coming from the east, but knowledge didn't travel as fast, and those who knew died before they could pass on that information. It's like being a tourist in your own country. You have no idea where to go, almost everyone around you is hysterical, speaking a different language. There's no map. You don't know the area beyond your neighborhood that well. You don't even know whether a large group of people fleeing past you are going the right way.

I heard someone popular pronounce futile fu-till the other day and my cheeks burned as it's a regular part of my vocabulary and thought I'd been saying it wrong. But you fine sir! Also say few-tile. Thank God for that. I've just got British parents 🤣 💚

Wouldn'it've been funny if it'd been in the path of the Walkie-Talkie Death Ray. xD

Sounds like Prince Charles of today is like this King Charles ll

Cognitive Paralysis exists in the time of Covid too, with vaccine hesitance.

I really hope that they used a accurately made replica rather than a actual vintage padlock!!!

While I think looting is abhorrent, in a situation like this where something is either going to go up in flames or someone is going to take it, what's the real difference? It will be lost to the original owner regardless.

I hope the third part is posted soon :D

Amazing story

For anyone interested, check out: Diary entries for September 1666 from the Diary of Samuel Pepys. The entire tragedy was all my relatives fault. Such a great legacy to inherit for a convict Australian. Rippa!

Thank you England for sending us your best people.

In Regency era London, the uncle of the girls in Pride and Prejudice lived and worked in Cheapside, and had a house in Gracechurch Street.

Sorry, but why would they want to refer to this horific event as the ' Great' Fire of London? I think that calling it 'Good', or even 'So-so', for that matter, would qualify as a distinct overstatement, an aggrandizement of what was indisputably a human tragedy of epic proportions. But to put this in the same category as the 'Great Wall of China', or even 'Great Britain', for that matter- how is this not an act of clearly tasteless hyperbole?

I find it to be a rather dark fact that the fire was in 1666, the mark of the beast

Much of the population of London at that time preferred the Commonwealth (Republic) to the monarchy.

15:00, 1 english mile = 1.61km.

at 31:00 what if extended burning at lower temperature could have the some results on the lock? they didnt test for that?

Ember shower....bane of our efforts in wildland fire. We had spot fires up to 3 miles ahead of the main body this last season.

blaming foreigners.... how british of them.

I have an alibi because I was not born yet.

I don’t think that fire was so great. I mean it was ok but you know …

I have questions? Like how do we know that the man who confessed to starting the fire didn't start the fire? They said the family was asleep when the fire started and that it must have been an ember from the bakery, but why are the narrators so sure? Is there more proof somewhere? Any my second question, twice in this show they talk about people throwing fireballs. What exactly is a fireball and was it common at that time to throw fireballs?

Dang. Charles during the plague was like Ted Cruz during Texas’s power outage this year. 😤

Thank you !!!!

Ronald Hutton is awesome. He knows so much and is in almost every single episode Absolute History makes. Much respect.

I learned the great fire of London in school history

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I mean this was bound to happen. I mean, yes, ppl KNEW fire safety bc their survival depended on it. However, the conditions were so perfect for fire that any little accident could turn into a fatal catastrophe in a matter of seconds to minutes.

sorry it was me ... well and the design of many buildings of the city at the time being basicly build from matchsticks... but i shouldnt have barbequed that sheep then and there

Amazing work and some of the photography, specially the lighting using candles absolute super.

Dan and Rob could spit roast me!

Do like real like just show us the real fire

Here in Germany we blame people that are not vaccinated for everything....

Any medieval documentary with Ronald Hutton is bound to be good and this one did not disappoint!

Wow! It took the King 3 days to actually do something?

the city is burning for three days... how where there still people left who had not fled?

Or the 80 year old watchmaker knew it was his time and decided to spend his last moments in peace rather than have his old bones be trampled by panic and left in the cold his last days. But ok, “denial”

I don't understand why the US metrics are being used.

someone drunk and smoking in bed ..or spontaneous human combustion LOL

maybe care a little bit when placing commercial breaks so they don't cut a sentence in half so I have to go back to hear a complete sentence."it's where they store their " advert slogans, things happen. "spices."

So about the blame....

Come ON. If there are sequels to this, post them.

I have to object that rich people have “more to lose.” Especially when the poor people literally lost everything

Looking forward to the next part!

But

Just blame it all on me.

Red, Hot, and Smokin! Suzannah not the fire

I would not trust any account from Ronald Hutton.

In 1666 St. Paul Cathedral was already older than modern day America by a few hundred years. Its crazy how much history the UK has. The U.S has fuck all for history.

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Where is part 2? Anyone? Thanks

How to find out that the baker start it?

As a pyromaniac this gave me another nerdgasm like part 1 did.

I'll watch a documentary on drying paint if it was Lipscomb covering it.

Dr Lipscombe is one of those ladies who could read the dictionary to me... and I'd be hanging on every word.

My question is if the Farriner’s blamed someone else for the fire how did we end up finding out that it was actually them that’s started the fire?

Yes!!! Another vid, made great by Suzanna's appearance!

The award with the most ad interruptions goes to this one. Jeez

lmao sounds like a BLM march

I am watching it waiting to see which woman was to blame.

Why wouldn't someone as pretty as Ms. Lipscomb have that wart removed from her nose...?!?

35:03 scared the hell out of me... 👁👁