Can we use sources of evidence to understand the cause and consequence of people losing their homes during the fire?

Every child has the right to food, clothing and a safe place to live so they can develop in the best possible way. The Government should help families so children can enjoy their right.

Over the past few weeks, we have heard eye-witness accounts of what happened during the fire. We know people had to leave their homes and camp on fields. Now let's hear what it was like for those people.

“I am almost out of my wits, we have packed up all our goods & cannot get a cart for money, they give 5 & 10 pound for carts … I fear I shall lose all I have and must run away … O pity me.”

Lady Ann Hobart, 1666.

Those whose homes were destroyed by the fire had to rely on the charity of family and friends. The newly wed couple Michael and Betty Mitchell were given temporary accommodation in Shadwell. Mr and Mrs Dunston of Thames Street couldn’t afford to rebuild their property and left London altogether. The aged playwright James Shirley was among the thousands of refugees stranded at Moorfields, where the diarist John Evelyn found people “under tents, some under miserable huts and hovels, many without a rag, or any necessary utensils, bed or board, who from delicateness, riches, and easy accommodations in stately and well-furnished houses, were now reduced to extreme misery and poverty”. It is perhaps no surprise that both Shirley and his wife died a month after the disaster from fright and consumption.

Rebecca Rideal, The Guardian

Does equality mean treating everyone the same?

Was everyone treated the same during the fire?

Did they try to protect everyone's house?

Did King Charles II try to give help equally?

Record your ideas using these sentence openers:

They were treated the same because...

They were not treated the same because...