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The 1660s: 1660–1669
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Charles II restored the monarchy in 1660 and reopened the theatres, then London suffered plague in 1665 and a four-day fire in 1666 that destroyed 80 percent of the city. Across the North Sea, Dutch painters like Vermeer were recording quiet interiors in the richest republic in Europe.
Plague in 1665 and fire in 1666 emptied London and then rebuilt it. Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders follows the plague year in a Derbyshire village, and the Finnish film Devil's Bride stages the Åland witch trials of 1666. Open the 1660s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
9 famous stories set in the 1660s
Live snapshot of the top 9 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-05). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.
Browse 17 books and 5 movies set in the 1660s (1660–1669).
Fear Street: 1666
In 1666 a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse before it's too late.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal…
Year of Wonders
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of…
Paradise Lost
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted…
Caleb's Crossing
A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from…
Devil's Bride
Anna’s story takes place on Åland Island in 1666 during the beginning of the most widespread and systematic witch-hunts in Scandinavian history. In all 16 women were convicted of being in league with the devil and seven…
The Weight of Ink
An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book.Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of…
The House at Old Vine
Beginning in the fifteenth century and concluding at the time of the Restoration, this is the second volume in the 'House' trilogy. The House at Old Vine is a colourful account of a turbulent period in English history…
Pirate Latitudes
Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, Jamaica′s capital, a cut-throat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy…
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