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Playing with fire.
Date: 1947
Audio
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Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 6, Track 13.
Date: 1973
Books
A fire survival guide : what to do if fire breaks out in your home / Home Office Public Relations Branch.
Date: 1991
Pictures
A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 45101i
Archives and manuscripts
Notes on Digby's experiments
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 1603-1665.Date: 1668Reference: MS.2124
Part of: Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)
Books
Frances the firefly.
Date: [1990]
Pictures
Online
Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: [1718]Reference: 20216i
Pictures
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Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.
Date: [1842?]Reference: 10199i
Books
Online
A journal of the plague year, or, Memorials of the great pestilence in London, in 1665 / by Daniel De Foe. Revised edition with historical notes by E. W. Brayley ... Also, some account of the great fire in London in 1666, by Gideon Harvey ... with an appendix containing the Earl of Clarendon's account of the fire. With illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1881]
Pictures
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A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 1732-1806.Reference: 16023i
Film
Playing with fire.
Date: 1947
Pictures
Online
The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: a nurse and two female patients [?] one drying her hair in front of a fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.
Flower (Nurse), active 1891.Date: 1891Reference: 38505i
Books
A guide for elderly people / [produced by the Home Office and the Central Office of Information].
Date: 1991]
Ephemera
Clothing on fire & method of treatment / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
Date: [1913]
Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+52.
Books
Air raid precaution appliances / Roberts, McLean & Co. Ltd.
Roberts, McLean & Co. Ltd.Date: [1938?]
Books
Online
The law of fire and life insurance / by George Beaumont.
Beaumont, George Duckett Barber.Date: 1833
Pictures
Online
The city fire at Enschede on 7 May 1862: people are gathered on a bridge and on the bank of a river, soldiers on horse-back are directing them, and they are being given help. Wood engraving by M. Jackson.
Date: [31 May 1862]Reference: 32261i
Books
Surge / Jay Bernard.
Bernard, Jay, 1988-Date: 2019
Pictures
Online
A burning building seen from the water at night. Gouache painting.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 33741i
Ephemera
A full true and particler record of a dreadful fire : wherein upwards of 200 people were burnt, and which occurred at Miramichi, in America, October 7, 1825 / W. Abrams.
Abrams, WilliamDate: [1825?]
Archives and manuscripts
Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 1603-1665.Date: 1668-c.1675Reference: MSS.2124-2125
Videos
Online
Playing with fire.
Date: 1947
Ephemera
Copy of verses on the late dreadful fire in James Street, Lisson Grove : pray give ear you feeling Christians.
Date: [between 1849 and 1862]
Books
Online
Specification of Richard Ireland Watts, John Offord, and John Roberts Thomas : condensing and consuming smoke.
Watts, Richard Ireland.Date: 1860

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Playing with fire.

Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 6, Track 13.

A fire survival guide : what to do if fire breaks out in your home / Home Office Public Relations Branch.

A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.

Notes on Digby's experiments

Frances the firefly.

Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.

A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.

Playing with fire.

The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: a nurse and two female patients [?] one drying her hair in front of a fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.

A guide for elderly people / [produced by the Home Office and the Central Office of Information].

Clothing on fire & method of treatment / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+52.

Air raid precaution appliances / Roberts, McLean & Co. Ltd.

The law of fire and life insurance / by George Beaumont.

The city fire at Enschede on 7 May 1862: people are gathered on a bridge and on the bank of a river, soldiers on horse-back are directing them, and they are being given help. Wood engraving by M. Jackson.

Surge / Jay Bernard.

A burning building seen from the water at night. Gouache painting.

A full true and particler record of a dreadful fire : wherein upwards of 200 people were burnt, and which occurred at Miramichi, in America, October 7, 1825 / W. Abrams.

Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)

Playing with fire.

Copy of verses on the late dreadful fire in James Street, Lisson Grove : pray give ear you feeling Christians.

Specification of Richard Ireland Watts, John Offord, and John Roberts Thomas : condensing and consuming smoke.