Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe life in London at the time of Great Fire including some of the clothing worn by different people and a vocabulary word bank to list some of the items of clothing worn by a significant member of London society during this period in history.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore what life was like in London during the seventeenth century prior to the Great Fire to make comparisons with life in Britain today..

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to investigate, describe and record information about some of the historical events surrounding the Great Fire of London that occurred in the seventieth century. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.