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The Great Fire of London in that apocalyptic year, 1666 by NEIL HANSON

The events that has burned its way into the consciousness of mankind.

Everyone has heard of it and knows something about it, yet for all the

wealth of contemporary accounts of the fire, and the detailed historical

research that has been carried out down the centuries, much about the

Great Fire remains misunderstood and many of the most intriguing questions

remain unanswered.

The fire and the era in which it occurred have interested me for years,

and the more I read, the more intrigued I became.When I began researching

the subject I soon discovered that, although one man was hanged for

the crime of starting the fire, he was almost the least plausible among a

score of suspects. These included the baker, Thomas Farriner, on whose

premises the fire began, foreign agents, religious fanatics, political factions,

the Duke of York, and even King Charles II himself.

Over the course of a year I read, I think, every book on the subject and

every relevant document of the period. Confronted by this tangled and

often contradictory mass of evidence, half-truth, hearsay, and conjecture, I

have been forced to accept that, barring the discovery of some long-lost

deathbed confession, there can be no definitive answer to the question, who

caused the fire of London? I’ve formed my own suspicions, but all I can do

is to lay out the evidence, including some intriguing new possibilities, and

then leave it to the reader to reach his or her own conclusion.

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