Letters and relics testify to how London’s wealthy rebuilt while the homeless were stranded in camps for yearsThe eerie modern resonance of the distinguished Fire of London,and the fate of the homeless and destitute whose shanty town outside the city was eventually destroyed by the authorities, will be traced in a major exhibition this summer at the Museum of London.
The show will present evidence that camps filled with refugees from the fire that overwhelmed the capital in 1666 were still there eight years later – until they were cleared by the authorities.
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Source: theguardian.com