... live in. it is interesting to see that after the rigid rule of the puritan government and Oliver Cromwell not only did the people need a massive injection of expression after regaining their social life's but the city too, this seemed to be a very positive time for development and the royal encouragement of new architecture to express the feeling of the time used the art as an expression of public thought and feeling willed into solid form by the great architects and planners of the time. Sadly however this could not last long. This time period is most remembered for the two great disasters suffered and injured by the people of London and the rest of England; The Great Plague and the Great Fire. In 1665 plague broke out in the city, thought to have been brought via ship from Holland. London had been no stranger to the plague since the ...

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