On 02 September in 1666, an accidental fire started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, within the City of London. The blaze was not properly extinguished, and so within hours the fire grew into a blazing inferno, which devastated the city and became known as 'The Great Fire of London'.

On This Day (10 March) in 1538, a son and heir was born to Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, soldier, politician and poet, and his wife Frances

On This Day (12 February) in 1554, Lady Jane Grey and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were executed.

On This Day (22 January) in 1554, Robert Dudley, the 21-year-old son of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, was found guilty of treason

On 13 February 1542, Jane Parker, Viscountess Rochford, was led to a scaffold that had been erected on Tower Green...

On This Day (01 Dec) in 1541, Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were tried for high treason, for their alleged adultery...

On This Day (13 Nov) in 1553, a trial was held at in the Great Hall, in the City of London Guildhall; the trial of Lady Jane Grey...

On This Day (02 Sep) 1666, a fire started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, city of London - The Great Fire of London.

Anne Askew's name has long been associated with martyrdom in Henry VIII's Protestant England. However, her early years were not necessarily indicative of a woman who would grow up to be at the forefront of rebellion and heresy in the religiously turbulent 1540s.

Anne Askew was a 25yo writer, poet and preacher, originally from Lincolnshire, whose resolute Reformist religious views...