the Great Fire of London
A phoenix from the ashes: 17th-century London reborn
Tragically, the current pandemic lends this sparkling study of London in its most decisive century a grim topicality — for…
London after the Great Fire: The King’s Evil, by Andrew Taylor, reviewed
The scene is London in 1667, the city recovering from the Great Fire the year before, with 80,000 people homeless…
When London burned like rotten sticks
Spectator readers know Andrew Taylor from his reviews of crime fiction. Many will also know him as an admirable writer…
