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87 days ago

Hinchingbrooke School, in Huntindgon, Cambridgeshire, was attended by the chronicler of the Great Fire of London in the 1640s.

3 months ago

The blaze began in Queen Victoria 's Private Chapel on the Berkshire residence and spread from there, as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip 's wedding anniversary celebrations went up in smoke.

4 months ago

Built from stone in 1320, it has outlived dozens of kings and queens of England and weathered the Great Fire of London and the Blitz .

5 months ago

Photos yesterday showed how the tower of All Hallows Staining has been balanced 45 feet above the ground as part of an ongoing office block development.

6 months ago

Samuel Pepys was a serial adulterer, a sex addict, a coercive predator, and a rapist, newly transcribed extracts from his diaries reveal.

Newly decoded extracts from his diaries expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious sexual predator

Samuel Pepys’s diary, which covers 1660 to 1669, is regarded a…

7 months ago

We've all asked ourselves the question: if the house is on fire, and people and pets are safe, what one item would you rescue? Diarist Samuel Pepys saved a £1,000 imported wheel of Parmigiano.

8 months ago

In 1666 a devastating fire swept through London, destroying 13,200 houses and leaving an estimated 100,000 people homeless. Now, a map shows what that devastation would look like today.

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