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Rat: So, Pepys went to command the Lord Mayor to pull down the houses, while King Charles II followed up the Thames in his royal barge to see the fire for himself. The permanent establishment of Christianity in the East Saxon kingdom took place in the reign of King Sigeberht II in the 650s. During the 8th century, the kingdom of Mercia extended its dominance over south-eastern England, initially through overlordship which at times developed into outright annexation. London seems to have come under direct Mercian control in the 730s. The story starts on Pudding Lane, in the home of Thomas Farriner, a baker who lived with his family above the bakery. This is London was first published in 1959 and is still one of the best children’s books set in London. The book highlights London’s main monuments including Big Ben and Trafalgar Square, as well as the capital’s parks, buildings and more. The charming illustrations are all accompanied by Sasek’s trademark lively text.

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From Pepys’s Diary to Ben Judah’s impressionistic survey, the city has provided a wealth of material for writers A sudden gust of wind sets of a wonderful adventure through London for the Queen, the Queen’s men and one very special hat. This delightful children’s book sees the daredevil Queen travel to London Zoo, over Tower Bridge and up Big Ben. The author of this wonderful royal adventure is also the chief curator at the Historic Royal Palaces and tells the tale of Queen Victoria’s childhood. A young girl, Miss Vi Conroy, is taken to Kensington Palace to be a playmate for 11-year-old Princess Victoria. She soon discovers, however, that she’s really been sent to spy on the future Queen by her father. In 2000, London-wide government was restored, with the creation of the Greater London Authority (GLA) by Tony Blair's government, covering the same area of Greater London. The new authority had similar powers to the old GLC, but was made up of a directly elected Mayor and a London Assembly. The first election took place on 4 May, with Ken Livingstone comfortably regaining his previous post, becoming first elected mayor of London. [48] London was recognised as one of the nine regions of England. In global perspective, it was emerging as a World city widely compared to New York and Tokyo. [49] 21st century [ edit ] The Shard (left), an icon of 21st-century LondonMany tradesmen from different countries came to London to trade goods and merchandise. Also, more immigrants moved to London making the population greater. More people also moved to London for work and for business making London an altogether bigger and busier city. Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War increased the country's international standing and opened large new markets to British trade, further boosting London's prosperity. Starting in the mid-1960s, and partly as a result of the success of such UK musicians as the Beatles and The Rolling Stones, London became a centre for the worldwide youth culture, exemplified by the Swinging London subculture which made Carnaby Street a household name of youth fashion around the world. London's role as a trendsetter for youth fashion continued strongly in the 1980s during the new wave and punk eras and into the mid-1990s with the emergence of the Britpop era. This story about life in London during WWII tells the tale of Willie, a young, illiterate evacuee from London who goes to live with a curmudgeonly widower living in a small village. It’s a wonderful and, at times heartbreaking, tale of their relationship. The fire swept through London for four days . It destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 churches, and even St Paul’s Cathedral . In May 2021, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital city, won a second term as London's mayor. [64]

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century London was dogged by crime. The Bow Street Runners were established in 1750 as a professional police force. Penalties for crime were harsh, with the death penalty being applied for fairly minor crimes. Public hangings were common in London, and were popular public events. The Horrible Histories series are superb at bringing history to life and in this guide to London they share the most gory stories about the capital. Learn what caused the Great Stink of 1858, who were the flying dustmen (and why were they feared) and all about London’s largest toilet!Robin R. Mundill (2010). The King's Jews. London: Continuum. ISBN 9781847251862. LCCN 2010282921. OCLC 466343661. OL 24816680M. ; see p. 88–99

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Wallace, Leslie (2015). Late pre-Roman Iron Age (LPRIA). Cambridge University Press. p.9. ISBN 978-1107047570 . Retrieved 16 February 2018. What’s really lovely about this book is that in addition to working as a travel guide to London, it also teaches you more about some of the destinations that Paddington Bear explores in his adventures. Not surprisingly, you’ll find the best places to get marmalade too. The diary was written between January 1660 and May 1669 and the picture it paints is one of astonishing detail. It came quite naturally and easily for him to write in that kind of detail, since he had an exact mind and was totally interested in everything that happened. He noticed, for example, that during the Great Fire of London in 1666 pigeons were trapped on the window ledges. He notices the state of fashion, he notices the kind of food and drink people were eating, and the kinds of songs that were being composed all around him. So in that sense it is an invaluable picture of daily life in mid-17th century London and one that has never really been rivalled by any other diarist. Like the rest of the country, London suffered severe unemployment during the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the East End during the 1930s, politically extreme parties of both right and left flourished. The Communist Party of Great Britain and the British Union of Fascists both gained serious support. Clashes between right and left culminated in the Battle of Cable Street in 1936. The population of London reached an all-time peak of 8.6million in 1939.

Number 1 Poultry (ONE 94), Museum of London Archaeology, 2013. Archaeology Data Service, The University of York. Some recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area. In 1993, the remains of a Bronze Age bridge were found on the Thames's south foreshore, upstream of Vauxhall Bridge. [1] This bridge either crossed the Thames or went to a now lost island in the river. Dendrology dated the timbers to between 1750 BC and 1285 BC. [2] In 2001, a further dig found that the timbers were driven vertically into the ground on the south bank of the Thames west of Vauxhall Bridge. [3] London: A History in Maps (2012) by Peter Barber charts the city’s transformation from its Londinium days to the Olympiad of five years ago, by means of maps culled from the British Library’s rich collection. We start with a symbolic view of London from the late middle ages and end with a series of snapshots of where we are now: a census map showing South Asian immigrants living in London in 2001, a pigeon’s eye view of the King’s Cross redevelopment, and a plan showing the extent of the London railway systems in 2012. In addition to the detailed charting of the city’s inner workings, there are extravagant speculations about what London might have been, if only common sense and financial probity hadn’t got in the way of wild imagination.

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In the public there was ambivalence leading-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics in the city, [58] though public sentiment changed strongly in their favour following a successful opening ceremony and when the anticipated organisational and transport problems never occurred. [59] Let’s look at some of the books which explore your passion for London. The first book on your list of London books was written during the reign of Elizabeth I. It’s called A Survey of London and was the first survey of its kind ever published. Has it helped you with your work?In those days when people wrote diaries, instead of using pens they dipped feather tips in ink and wrote with that instead. Jeffrey A., Auerbach, ed. The Great Exhibition of 1851: a nation on display (Yale University Press, 1999) Naismith, Rory, Citadel of the Saxons: The Rise of Early London (I.B.Tauris; 2018), ISBN 978-1788312226