The GREAT FIRE of LONDON

(1666)

History :

• Great Fire of London (Wikipedia)
  1 London in the 1660s 1.1 Fire hazards in the City 1.2 Seventeenth-century firefighting
  2 Development of the fire 2.1 Sunday 2.2 Monday 2.3 Tuesday 2.4 Wednesday
  3 Deaths and destruction
  4 Aftermath...

• The Great Fire of London - The London Gazette (exmsft.com)
  Scans of The London Gazette, Sep 10, 1666

• The Stuarts - Great Fire of London 1666 (historyonthenet.com)
  
  

• London's Burning: The Great Fire (BBC)
  "In-depth article exploring the cause and effect of the Great Fire of London."
  1. Introduction
  2. London's burning
  3. Demolition
  4. The aftermath
  5. The Parliamentary investigation
  6. Find out more...

• The Great Plague and the Great Fire (BBC)
  - with an EXTRACT FROM JOHN EVELYN'S DIARY ON THE NIGHT THE FIRE STARTS

• The Great Fire of London, UK (BBC)
  The Spread of the Fire - Fire Fighting - Damage - Rebuilding - Conspiracy Theories

• Fire (Channel 4)
  Story of the fire | Watch London burn | Ask the experts | Legacy of the fire | Find out more
  
  

• The Monument to the Great Fire of London (BBC)
  
  

• London - before and after the fire of 1666 - with an animation (BBC)
  
  

• View of St Paul's Cathedral burning in the Great Fire of London, 1666 ( - tableau)
  (infant-resources.co.uk)

• View of figures escaping from the Great Fire of London and sheltering under the arches of London Bridge. ( - tableau)
  (infant-resources.co.uk)

Vocabulary :

• Fire of London Vocabulary List (Primary Resources)

Pictures :

• The Great Fire of London (explore-stpauls.net)
  
  

• View Across Burning London (The Great Fire) - (oldlondonmaps.com)
  
  

• London in flames (wilsonsalmanac.com)
  
  

• Pictures (warrinerprimaries.com)
  
  

INTERACTIVE activities :

• Great Fire of London - Quiz (Primary Resources)

• The Great Fire of London - A text - Fill in the gaps (coxhoe.durham.sch.uk)

• Quiz - The Great Fire of London (funtrivia.com)
  
• Idem
  

Activities TO PRINT :

• Fire of London Questions - to print (Primary Resources)

• Cut out and put the two halves of the sentences together
  (infant-resources.co.uk)
• Great Fire of London Quiz (Primary Resources)
  

Lesson plans :

• Great Fire of London - Teaching resources (tes.co.uk)

• The Great Fire of London (Primary Resources)
  
  

• The Great Fire of London (ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk)
  " Investigate from pictures why the fire lasted so long, travelled so far and spread so quickly."
  
  

• How do we know about the Great Fire of London (ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk)
  Introduction - Preparatory work - The Lesson

• Great Fire of London - Register for FREE. (tes.co.uk)
  "The aim of this online resource is to help children explore this event through the eyes of four people who saw it. It can help children to develop an awareness of what the term "eyewitness" means and why eyewitness accounts may differ.
  Children can explore the image to find short, relevant explanations of what is going on in the picture, as well as finding out something about the lives of four important witnesses to the famous fire.
  Additionally, there is a 10-question quiz to test your pupils' knowledge, useful weblinks and downloadable teacher notes offering additional support and activities."
  
  

• What happened in the Fire of London - a lesson plan based on original documents plus:
  Tasks
  Background
  Links
  Teacher's Notes
  (learningcurve.gov.uk)
  
  

• How do we know about the Great Fire of London? (standards.dfes.gov.uk)
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  "This unit links an important event beyond living memory in British history, the Great Fire of London, with a famous person, Samuel Pepys. Children develop their sense of chronology and consider why the Great Fire happened; its results; and the different ways it is represented...
  This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes...
  1. Where and when did the Great Fire begin?
  2. What happened in the Great Fire?
  3. Why did the fire spread so far and stay alight for so long?
  4. How do we know what happened in the Great Fire?
  5. What have we learnt about the Great Fire?"
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• Great fire of London - 2nd September 1666 - interactive game (fireoflondon.org.uk)

  

• Great Fire of London - Wordsearch (historyonthenet.com)

• Great Fire of London - Crossword (historyonthenet.com)
  
  
  

Games TO PRINT :

• Great Fire of London : Wordsearch (wordsearchfun.com)

Poems :

• London After the Great Fire, 1666 by John Dryden (poetsgraves.co.uk)

Songs :

• A traditional song : London’s burning (music-scores.com)
  

• The Great Fire Of London - Vice Squad :
  "The first are last, theres nowhere left to run
  from the great fire of London, the great fire of London
  Burn down London, London burn down"