Rising from the Ashes: The Tale of Thomas the Baker
It was a chilly autumn evening in September 1666. The wind blew with a sharp bite, rustling through the narrow cobblestone alleys of London. As the city drifted into slumber, a spark—small, harmless at first—escaped from a bakery on Pudding Lane. It was the beginning of what would become one of the most devastating events in London’s history: the Great Fire.