<p>An investigation into who was present in Thomas Farriner's bakery on the night the Great Fire of London began there in 1666. Thomas Dagger, a journeyman baker, is identified for the first time as the 'man' noted in one contemporary source to have raised the alarm. </p>
<p>This research was published on the Reimagining the Restoration project website in 2023.</p>
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Reimagining the Restoration: Samuel Pepys's Diary and Popular History for the Twenty-first Century