Adrian Tinniswood

where you rent it, you don't own it, and it burns down.

So you've got nowhere to live.

You've got no means of making a living.

And there is a clause in your tenancy agreement saying if the property is damaged, it's up to you to repair it.

No insurance.

And the astonishing thing is that Londoners did that.

Within three or four years, most housing in London was rebuilt.

It's incredible, just incredible that people could get down and do that.

This is the rage to blame.

which gave rise to the rioting, to the beatings up of foreigners.

People were convinced long afterwards that it was a terrorist attack.

There was a plaque put up which said, here by permission of heaven, hell broke loose on this Protestant city through the malice of barbarous papists whose fires are not yet quenched.

We've more noticed now from the Dutch to the French to the Catholics.

I mean, remember somebody was hanged for starting the fire of London, poor old Robert Huber.

who was bonkers, insisted that he had started the fire.

He'd not even been in London when the fire began, but he was, like a lot of foreigners, he was apprehended as he was trying to leave the country just after the fire.

Foreigners trying to leave the country because it wasn't a safe place for them to be.

But he's apprehended, he's arrested, and he says, yeah, I did it.

I put a firebomb in Thomas Parrener's bakery in Pudding Lane.

And he takes the authorities to Pudding Lane, which is now flat, and says, this is where the house was.