The Great Fire of London in 1666 consumed about four-fifths of the City. ... Our Tudor tube map reveals pre-fire buildings further afield. ... The oldest house in the Square Mile, ...

A small Tudor survivor is Sutton House in Hackney. ... In 1709, 43 years after the Great Fire of London, a law was introduced to protect homes by recessing their wooden window frames by 4in.

1. Why did The Great Fire of London happen? The episode begins in the present at a barbecue where we meet a rat called Maureen. Maureen then takes us back through time to introduce one of her ...

Artist's impression of Thomas Cromwell's London estate Peter Urmston In the mid-1530s, at the zenith of his political career, Thomas Cromwell—the chief minister to Henry VIII, the Tudor king ...