The final programme in the series is a 15 minute account of The Great Fire, with dramatic inserts, told for us by Cat Sandion ofCBeebies. It is a ‘listening’ rather than a ‘doing ...

My grandma told me that, and her grandma told her all the way back to a rat who lived over 350 years ago, in the time of the Great Fire of London. This is her story. It all began in London – the ...

"For many people who lived through the Civil War, Saturday, April 14, 1865, was indelibly remembered for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln," writes Local History columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "Yet ...

These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving story of the United States.

“Great Fire of 1881” the marker read, followed by a 90-word summation of one of the deadliest — perhaps the deadliest — fire events in Michigan history. Snyder is a historian who knows a ...