A History of London

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The story starts on Pudding Lane, in the home of Thomas Farriner, a baker who lived with his family above the bakery. Three years after the war, the 1948 Summer Olympics were held at the original Wembley Stadium, at a time when the city had barely recovered from the war. London's rebuilding was slow to begin. However, in 1951 the Festival of Britain was held, which marked an increasing mood of optimism and forward looking.

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a b c Nikolaus Pevsner, London I: The Cities of London and Westminster rev. edition,1962, Introduction p 48. In 1224, after an accusation of ritual murder, the Jewish community was subjected to a steep punitive levy. Then in 1232, Henry III confiscated the principal synagogue of the London Jewish community because he claimed their chanting was audible in a neighboring church. [13] In 1264, during the Second Barons' War, Simon de Montfort's rebels occupied London and killed 500 Jews while attempting to seize records of debts. [14] A panorama of London by Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1616. Old St Paul's Cathedral had lost its spire by this time. The two theatres on the foreground (Southwark) side of the Thames are The Bear Garden and The Globe. The large church in the foreground is St Mary Overie, now Southwark Cathedral. Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource referenceBrimblecombe, Peter. The Big Smoke: A History of Air Pollution in London Since Medieval Times (Methuen, 1987) Exploring 20th-century London – Explore London's history, culture and religions during the 20th century Charles Welch (1893–1894). Notes on London Municipal Literature. hdl: 2027/coo.31924106307261. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) (thematic bibliography about London) During the 19th century, London was transformed into the world's largest city and capital of the British Empire. Its population expanded from 1million in 1800 to 6.7million a century later. During this period, London became a global political, financial, and trading capital. In this position, it was largely unrivalled until the latter part of the century, when Paris and New York began to threaten its dominance.

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Jeffrey A., Auerbach, ed. The Great Exhibition of 1851: a nation on display (Yale University Press, 1999) In the early 1980s political disputes between the GLC run by Ken Livingstone and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher led to the GLC's abolition in 1986, with most of its powers relegated to the London boroughs. This left London as the only large metropolis in the world without a central administration. Main article: 19th-century London London as engraved by J. & C. Walker in 1845 from a map by R Creighton. Many districts in the West End were fully developed, and the East End also extended well beyond the eastern fringe of the City of London. There were now several bridges over the Thames, allowing the rapid development of South London. Not only is the design beautiful, the book is filled with fun snippets guaranteed to hold all kids’ attention – such as the story of the polar bear that used to fish near the Tower of London! During the Reformation, London was the principal early centre of Protestantism in England. Its close commercial connections with the Protestant heartlands in northern continental Europe, large foreign mercantile communities, disproportionately large number of literate inhabitants and role as the centre of the English print trade all contributed to the spread of the new ideas of religious reform. Before the Reformation, more than half of the area of London was the property of monasteries, nunneries and other religious houses. [17]Jason R. Ali and Peter Cunich. "The Church East and West: Orienting the Queen Anne Churches, 1711-34". The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2005): 56–73. In JSTOR 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. The City of London is the historic core of the Greater London metropolis, and is today its primary financial district, though it represents only a small part of the wider metropolis.