The Great Fire of London began in 1666 inside a bakery on Pudding Lane and tore through a city built like a tinderbox. CC & Kitty trace the dry weather, wooden streets, firehooks, panic, scapegoating, and rebuilding rules that changed London after the flames. Official records list six deaths, but the aftermath was much bigger than that.

This is not just a story about a bakery fire. It is a story about panic, blame, survival, and the disaster that helped reshape London.

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