COLCEC course topics 2016-17
The City in History: Within Living Memory
Websites
- Blitzed, rebuilt and built again: what became of London's bomb sites? - includes link to gallery of bomb damage maps 1939-1945
- Ruined, Rebuilt and Re-purposed: London after the Blitz - Londonist article
- Bomb Sight - 'Mapping the WW2 bomb census'
- Collage: The London Picture Archive - World War Two gallery
- Post-War Buildings
- London in the 1950s - photographs
- Britain 1950 - History Today article
Videos
- Driving through old London (1950s)
- Festival of Britain in colour 1951
- London 1950s - British Pathé films
- This is London Reel 1 and 2 (1950-1959) - video: British Travel Association travelogue narrated by Rex Harrison
- Wood Street Police Station - episode (10 mins) of 1996 series Building Sights
Publications
- Martin Biddle, The Future of London's Past: A Survey of the Archaeological Implications of Planning and Development in the Nation's Capital (Rescue, 1973)
- Cecil Brown (drawing) and Ralph Hyde (notes), Devastated London: The Bombed City as seen from a Barrage Balloon (London Topographical Society, map, 1990) - available from the London Topographical Society
- Clive Harris, Walking the London Blitz (Pen & Sword Books, paperback, 2003)
- Owen Hopkins, Lost Futures: The Disappearing Architecture of Post-War Britain (Royal Academy of Arts, 2017)
- Laurence Ward, Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945 (Thames & Hudson, hardback, 2015) - maps can be seen online at The Guardian
- Jerry White, London in the 20th Century: A City and Its People (Vintage, paperback, 2008)
The City in History of Art: Portraits and Portrait Creation
Websites
- Collage - The London Picture Archive
- Guildhall Art Gallery
- Museum of the Order of St John
- National Portrait Gallery - Tudor and Elizabethan Portraits
- The Queen's House, Greenwich
- St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum
- The V&A
- The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers
- The Londoners: Portrait of a Working City, c.1447 to 1980 - exhibition at London Metropolitan Archives, 6 February to 5 July 2017
Gresham Lectures
- Making Art in Tudor Britain
- Trading Identities: The image of the merchant - two portraits of Sir Thomas Gresham
- The Faces of a King: New research on portraits of Henry VIII
- Hans Holbein the Younger
Books
- Tarnya Cooper, A Guide to Tudor & Jacobean Portraits (National Portrait Gallery, 2012)
- Mireille Galinou (ed), City Merchants and the Arts 1670-1720 (Oblong Creative, 2004)
- Richard Ollard, Pepys and his Contemporaries (National Portrait Gallery, 2015)
The Great Fire of London 1666
Exhibitions
- Fire! Fire! - Museum of London, 23 July to 17 April 2017
- London's Baking: Bakers, Cakes, Bread and Puddings from 1666 - London Metropolitan Archives, 30 August to 1 February 2017
- 'To fetch out the fire': reviving London, 1666 - Royal College of Physicians, 1 September to 16 December
Videos
- Off the Map - a virtual 'fly-through' tour of 17th-century London (3mins 29secs)
- The Great Fire of London - what impact did it have on the city? - King's College London film (5mins 23secs)
- Watch it burn - recording of the live stream of the London's Burning event (49mins 54secs)
- London's Burning - creating the wooden sculpture (2mins 24secs)
- Dominos 350 - toppling a trail of dominoes marking the progress of the Great Fire through the City (11mins 50secs)
Websites
- Museum of London collections - enter keywords 'great fire' to search for relevant items
- The Great Fire of London - Wikipedia page
- The Great Fire of London - Key Facts and Figures
- The Monument
- Guildhall Library
- London Metropolitan Archives
- The Great Fire of London 1666 - sources in London Metropolitan Archives (downloadable PDF)
- Collage: The London Picture Archive - images from London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library
- British Library - 1677 map of the extent of the Great Fire
- Parliamentary Archives - documents related to the Great Fire
- The London Gazette - timeline with downloadable documents, including the edition reporting on the Great Fire; search for specific editions or keywords in the Notices section of the website
- St Paul's Collection of Wren Office Drawings - designs for the new cathedral
- Great Fire 350 - a season of events marking the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London
Books
- John Evelyn, The Diary of John Evelyn (various editions; Kindle edition very cheap on Amazon)
- Diary of John Evelyn, Vol.2, 1664-1705 - full text to read online or download from Project Gutenberg
- Robert Latham (ed), The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary (1982)
- Samuel Pepys, Diary (various editions, full and abridged; Kindle edition free on Amazon)
- Diary of Samuel Pepys for August/September 1666 - full text to read online or download from Project Gutenberg
- Thomas Vincent, God's Terrible Voice in the City - full text; see Section 6 for his description of the fire
- Hazel Forsyth, Butcher, Baker, Candlestick maker: Surviving the Great Fire of London (I.B. Tauris, 2016) - linked to the Museum of London exhibition
- Neil Hanson, The Dreadful Judgement: The True Story of the Great Fire of London (Corgi, paperback, 2012)
- Leo Hollis, The Phoenix: The Men Who Made Modern London (Phoenix, 2009) - the rebirth of London after the Great Fire
- Gustav Milne, The Great Fire of London (Historical Publications Ltd, 1990)
- Rebecca Rideal, 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire (John Murray, 2016)
- Adrian Tinniswood, The Great Fire of London: The Essential Guide (Vintage, 2016)
- Adrian Tinniswood, By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London (Pimlico, 2004)
- The Great Fire of London 1666: A Cold-Case Fire Investigation (Worshipful Company of Firefighters, 2016)