The Great Fire Of London: Who Really Caused The Flames? | The Great Fire | Absolute History
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2021
- Dan Jones follows the path of the fire on the worst day of its rampage as it swept through some of London's iconic buildings. Suzannah Lipscomb finds evidence in the archives of who was blamed and who escaped scot free. Rob Bell visits Imperial College London for more information about the spread of the fire and to re-create the intense heat it generated.
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The Great Fire is why, 20 years later, William Penn made the Philadelphia streets wide with strategically placed squares for refuge.
So let me get this straight, at the time some people failed to acknowledge the issue and died in their homes, and others blamed foreigners. It looks like things haven't really changed all that much since the 1600s.
you mean like how leftists in america like to use their go to blame of anybody who isnt them anytime they make a mistake and overreact to individual deaths based off falsified statistics years later proven to be incorrect? dont make dumb comments without expecting people to call you out over it, this was on you
@@adrock_sokolov6570 bruh nobody take this guy to a party lol. It says a lot that you’re willing to jump on anybody that makes a joke that you can relate to your political opinions. Spouting a bunch of bullshit doesn’t make the comment not funny
Suzannah and Dan are real storyteller stars and together with Rob they are doing such a great team work but they should rename the documentary series to Absolute Thrilling History. The actors and actresses are doing their characters amazingly well. Can't wait for part 3!
Someone was keeping a dragon on their basement, and it started the fire, that’s why now it’s illegal to own a dragon in England.
Hagrid's great-g-g-g-g-g-grandfather maybe?
@@indy_go_blue6048 possibly, or someone from the scamander’s family, those are my 2 suspects 😆
Finally a scientific explanation!🔥
It’s technically not illegal, you just have to keep healthy and saddled up as the Queen has divine right to commandeer it and fly to Balmoral at any time.
That bloddy Norbert!
How are we getting such a good show on UA-cam?
Licensing from the BBC, who originally did the series. :)
Blaming foreigners is pretty much the default setting for any society.
How we are watching this content for free is beyond me!
Excellent documentary and very well put together!
Simple, it's just recycled. This was originally on TV so made it's millions in profits from ads long ago.
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718
Hadn't thought about that, but, to be honest the video, is full of adverts so it makes sense!
That watchmaker was literally the meme of the dog sitting at a table in a fire saying "this is fine"
One point of the nature of fire is that as a fire begins to grow, the hot air rising causes cold air to be drawn to the fire to replace the hot air, this replacement causes the fire to grow exponentially as the greater the hot air rising, the more the cold air is pulled in.
Dr.Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones...two of my favorite presenters!!
Suzannah Lipscomb is the best!!! All the documentaries that I've watched with her have been fantastic, and I've rewatched them all several times. Love love love.
I really like parts with the nowadays demonstrations of the devastating power of the fire and the wind, these add so much to the understanding!
Now I'm looking forward for the next part of the documentary.
"London,was built in the thirteenth century, mostly made of straw , and then a great fire came and nackered the lot." Steven Toast
Just finished the wonderful Victorian Baker series and I’m so glad to have found this series to feed my mini-doc appetite (despite the sad irony of bakeries in this one as a followup;;)
@@kittyk9836 ooh! I have not! But I will soon - thanks for your recommendation :’)
"Surprisingly, [...] people wanted to blame foreigners for starting the fire."
Gurl... :|
We really haven’t changed much, now have we.
You have successfully taken the "surprisingly" out of context to shape new meaning by omission.
While the fact foreigners were blamed and still often are today is shitty, the "surprisingly" referred to the fact that the baker wasn't blamed despite his home being the place the fire started. So yeah, your "gurl" didn't actually say something as tonedeaf as you are implying here.
@@piippiixD bruh we get u wanna blame the foreigners calm down
The concept of a firestorm was unheard of at the time, but that's what this sounds like.
I love Suzanne and Dan together! I always thought the Great Fire of London had shockingly low casualties. That famous English Reserve lead to an orderly Escape...
When the narrator said Charles in charge all I could think of was the them song from the 80's sitcom🤣
Ronald Hutton is awesome. He knows so much and is in almost every single episode Absolute History makes. Much respect.
Any medieval documentary with Ronald Hutton is bound to be good and this one did not disappoint!
HOW are there not thousands and thousands of views on these???
People set fire to a city, then, to avoid responsibility, blamed other people who have nothing to do with their plight? I feel like I've heard this story before.
Oooooh- thank you- didn't think that we would get part 2. Wish I could afford to pay. Thank you for this content.
Amazing work and some of the photography, specially the lighting using candles absolute super.
35:03 scared the hell out of me... 👁👁
@Sun Flower I think they're referring to whoever was peaking through the blinds
@@TvLandZombie lol ur right but i appreciate the effort
Love this channel!!
6:30 I've watched Prof. Ronald Hudson in some of the "X.. Farm" episodes. I immediately thought of the actor who played Cedrick Diggory's father in Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire."
Glad I'm not the only one 🤣
I hope the third part is posted soon :D
Thank you !!!!
these comments
this is what having a crush on your professor mustve looked like
I had just one teacher in college who was knock-down gorgeous but she was deeply in love already. With herself.
Amazing story
Suzannah is my favorite!!
Things haven't changed. Recent foreigners are still being blamed for all disasters.
Love History..
They should do a romantic disaster love story for the great fire of London like they did with Titanic lol.
They had romance back then when everything was black and white? Who knew!
They did it with Pompeii too, so yeah, why not
A Netflix drama series would be amazing 🙂
With people with color in all roles, and drag queens heroically putting out the fire, but some toxic white supremacists litting the fire on again, the love story must be between some people that have pronounces
Ember shower....bane of our efforts in wildland fire. We had spot fires up to 3 miles ahead of the main body this last season.
Looking forward to the next part!
Díky!
Thank you England for sending us your best people.
In Regency era London, the uncle of the girls in Pride and Prejudice lived and worked in Cheapside, and had a house in Gracechurch Street.
Hello I'm Thomas farriner the Baker from 1666 and I've cooked a lot of things in my time but now I'm gonna show you the thing I'm most famous for yes today I'm going to show you how to cook London ~Mat Baynton horrible histories
I remember Nostradamus prophecised that it was a cursed for sacrificing a Kings life.
Come ON. If there are sequels to this, post them.
Wouldn'it've been funny if it'd been in the path of the Walkie-Talkie Death Ray. xD
Rain is the perfect name for a fire expert🤣
Dan and Rob could spit roast me!
It makes me think that people were running in all directions trying to escape, not having that geographical/spatial knowledge since many didn't even travel more than 30km from their home/neighborhood. They would just follow a large group of people, running without even knowing if they were running away from the fire or towards it. Almost every street they turned, there would be someone running in the opposite direction yelling hysterically not to go that way, 'fire's coming.' They ran out of time trying to find which direction to go until they were surrounded by the fire coming at them from all directions.
You would think people would know the fire was traveling west, coming from the east, but knowledge didn't travel as fast, and those who knew died before they could pass on that information. It's like being a tourist in your own country. You have no idea where to go, almost everyone around you is hysterical, speaking a different language. There's no map. You don't know the area beyond your neighborhood that well. You don't even know whether a large group of people fleeing past you are going the right way.
For anyone interested, check out: Diary entries for September 1666 from the Diary of Samuel Pepys. The entire tragedy was all my relatives fault. Such a great legacy to inherit for a convict Australian. Rippa!
thats hot
I heard someone popular pronounce futile fu-till the other day and my cheeks burned as it's a regular part of my vocabulary and thought I'd been saying it wrong. But you fine sir! Also say few-tile. Thank God for that. I've just got British parents 🤣 💚
It's definitely few-tile! I've also heard few-tull, but I think that could be a case of regionalism. Toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe, right?
@@PentiSam I use both pronunciations interchangeably lol Just depends on the flow of words, I think. At least it is for me.
While I think looting is abhorrent, in a situation like this where something is either going to go up in flames or someone is going to take it, what's the real difference? It will be lost to the original owner regardless.
that was what crossed my mind too
15:00, 1 english mile = 1.61km.
at 31:00 what if extended burning at lower temperature could have the some results on the lock? they didnt test for that?
no need to. You still need to be close to fusion temperature to have any significant damage to metal even with time ;)
I really hope that they used a accurately made replica rather than a actual vintage padlock!!!
People keep asking “Well, how do they know it was really the baker and not the guy that actually confessed?”
First, they explained in the video BUT many people have confessed to crimes they didn’t commit, even if it means their certain death, for the attention and “fame” it brings, albeit momentarily. Many people confessed to being Jack The Ripper and The Zodiac Killer. This is not a new thing.
The fact that the bakers signed that paper and said that this guy threw a fireball (lol a fireball) into their house when they were supposedly asleep already, its fishy enough for me.
I learned the great fire of London in school history
Much of the population of London at that time preferred the Commonwealth (Republic) to the monarchy.
Where is part 2? Anyone? Thanks
Part 3, you mean. This was part 2.
I love her hair
I mean this was bound to happen. I mean, yes, ppl KNEW fire safety bc their survival depended on it. However, the conditions were so perfect for fire that any little accident could turn into a fatal catastrophe in a matter of seconds to minutes.
the city is burning for three days... how where there still people left who had not fled?
Yes!!! Another vid, made great by Suzanna's appearance!
Wow! It took the King 3 days to actually do something?
blaming foreigners.... how british of them.
maybe care a little bit when placing commercial breaks so they don't cut a sentence in half so I have to go back to hear a complete sentence."it's where they store their " advert slogans, things happen. "spices."
Dan kind of gets on my nerves. He looks like he'd be telling the shows crew not to look him directly in the eyes lol. No idea why I think that!
Waiter......
Can I have a spoon, said the inferno.
I'll watch a documentary on drying paint if it was Lipscomb covering it.
Just blame it all on me.
I have to object that rich people have “more to lose.” Especially when the poor people literally lost everything
How i understood it is that rich people literally had more material goods they could lose in comparisone to poor people who, unfortunatelly, didn't have that much. In terms of living of course poor people had more to lose. English is not my first language,though,so i might've misunderstood.
someone drunk and smoking in bed ..or spontaneous human combustion LOL
So about the blame....
I have an alibi because I was not born yet.
So you say! 🤔
Sabbatai Zevi
How to find out that the baker start it?
Their sourdough starter was lit.
You can trace a fire by eyewitness accounts and, if you’re lucky, physical evidence of the fire burning its path. There is a LOT of eyewitnesses.
I don't understand why the US metrics are being used.
Because America 👊
In 1666 St. Paul Cathedral was already older than modern day America by a few hundred years. Its crazy how much history the UK has. The U.S has fuck all for history.
Actually they've got quite a lot of history that just had the bad luck not to be written down and defended by high-tech weapons against intruders arriving in ships, so we will never know about it :-/
If you start counting US history when it was populated by its natives and not the white people arriving on boats and killing said natives then yes, it has quite a bit of history.
Sounds like Prince Charles of today is like this King Charles ll
I find it to be a rather dark fact that the fire was in 1666, the mark of the beast
Plus a thousand
There were lots of fires at the time... the city was a giant fire hazard, this was going to happen sooner or later...and it did...a bunch of times, not just that year
@@eartheclipse8 I know that
But
Red, Hot, and Smokin! Suzannah not the fire
I don’t think that fire was so great.
I mean it was ok but you know …
Dang. Charles during the plague was like Ted Cruz during Texas’s power outage this year. 😤
Do like real like just show us the real fire
My question is if the Farriner’s blamed someone else for the fire how did we end up finding out that it was actually them that’s started the fire?
good question, how did they know it really wasn’t the guy who confessed? are they just assuming it’s a lie? do they have proof? also, i imagine the Farriner’s must have been terrified when they confirmed the other guy’s confession.
@@AndreinneLawrence Like I told someone else who asked the same question: Many people have confessed, and continue to do so, to crimes they didn’t commit for the attention and “fame” it brings, even if they are sure to be put to death. People confessed to being Jack The Ripper and The Zodiac Killer (none of them were the actual killer when you confronted them with evidence)
I have questions? Like how do we know that the man who confessed to starting the fire didn't start the fire? They said the family was asleep when the fire started and that it must have been an ember from the bakery, but why are the narrators so sure? Is there more proof somewhere? Any my second question, twice in this show they talk about people throwing fireballs. What exactly is a fireball and was it common at that time to throw fireballs?
Many people confess to crimes they didn’t commit for the attention, even if it means certain death. Many people “confessed” to being Jack The Ripper and The Zodiac Killer (none of them were)
I believe Fireballs were a mythical thing in the medieval era. Many people believe to have seen fireballs rain from the sky and appear out of nowhere.
he wasn't in london at that time, his confession didn't match the actual facts, it's also speculated he had learning disabilities so he didn't understand what he was doing by confessing
Cognitive Paralysis exists in the time of Covid too, with vaccine hesitance.
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The award with the most ad interruptions goes to this one. Jeez
Dr Lipscombe is one of those ladies who could read the dictionary to me... and I'd be hanging on every word.
Here in Germany we blame people that are not vaccinated for everything....
Sorry, but why would they want to refer to this horific event as the ' Great' Fire of London? I think that calling it 'Good', or even 'So-so', for that matter, would qualify as a distinct overstatement, an aggrandizement of what was indisputably a human tragedy of epic proportions. But to put this in the same category as the 'Great Wall of China', or even 'Great Britain', for that matter- how is this not an act of clearly tasteless hyperbole?
Or the 80 year old watchmaker knew it was his time and decided to spend his last moments in peace rather than have his old bones be trampled by panic and left in the cold his last days. But ok, “denial”
I would not trust any account from Ronald Hutton.
Because.....?
As a pyromaniac this gave me another nerdgasm like part 1 did.
sorry it was me ... well and the design of many buildings of the city at the time being basicly build from matchsticks... but i shouldnt have barbequed that sheep then and there
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Right in London and in a year ending in 666, hahahaha, yes of course. And I am the reincarnation of Queen Victoria.