5/30/2023 0 Comments The great fire of london pepys![]() ![]() This was, indeed, a time of turmoil for Londoner’s and this diary makes that very clear. The only beneficial thing to come of it was its consequential culling of the plague. ![]() The blaze engulfed houses and reduced streets to rubble it incinerated half the city and left its population homeless. ![]() He was an eyewitness to the devastation and was, naturally, completely horrified by what he saw. With one’s face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of fire drops The Great Fire of London was a terribly destructive event and Pepys, certainly, dramatized it here. ![]() This diary is incredibly emotive in the good parts. But, enough of that- there’s a book to review! Well, a very short one. Can you blame me? I saw Richard II last week and I’m still in a state of awe. Admittedly, I just wanted an excuse to praise one of the best places on earth. The globe is the marvellous exception to the rule. Such was the devastation of the great fire of London that today (almost four hundred years later) the law is still in place. I’m, of course, subjectively referring to Shakespeare’s Globe. Did you know that in London today there is only one building that is legally allowed a thatched roof? It’s, without a shadow of a doubt, the best building in London it’s full of wonder, poetry, and the highest form of art. ![]()
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