London Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

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St Dunstan in the East Gardens - Often referred to as the most beautiful gardens in the City of London. Medieval London was made up of narrow and twisting streets, and most of the buildings were made from combustible materials such as timber and straw, which made fire a constant threat, while sanitation in cities was of low-quality.

Large numbers of Jewish immigrants fleeing from Nazi Germany settled in London during the 1930s, mostly in the East End. Altogether there are more than 20 accounts: you can visit six in one session. The experience is carefully layered. Newspaper headlines are pasted on the walls: “German Jews pouring in” – the Daily Mail, 1944. Cards are handed out with deft accounts of migration to London over five centuries. And at the end is a telling exhibition: a collection of objects that are important to the storytellers. A scatter of shells from Greece. A turquoise and indigo tile from Iran. A calling card from a detention centre: “50 units = 5 minutes.” Audience members sit at tables writing messages to the people they have heard. A show has opened out into a conversation. London". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) A silver coin of Alfred, with the legend ÆLFRED REX The statue of Alfred the Great at Winchester, erected 1899Bich Luu Lien, "Taking the Bread Out of Our Mouths: Xenophobia in Early Modern London", Immigrants and Minorities, July 2000, Vol. 19 Issue 2, pp. 1–22 After Æthelred's death at London in 1016 his son Edmund Ironside was proclaimed king there by the witangemot and left to gather forces in Wessex. London was then subjected to a systematic siege by Cnut but was relieved by King Edmund's army; when Edmund again left to recruit reinforcements in Wessex the Danes resumed the siege but were again unsuccessful. However, following his defeat at the Battle of Assandun Edmund ceded to Cnut all of England north of the Thames, including London, and his death a few weeks later left Cnut in control of the whole country.

Main articles: London in World War II and The Blitz Firefighters putting out flames after an air raid during The Blitz, 1941 Air raids caused about 2,300 casualties in London in World War I, and during the Battle of Britain in World War II, the city was bombed relentlessly by the German Luftwaffe—the London Blitz eventually killed about 30,000 residents. Hmm. We must command the Lord Mayor to pull down all the houses in front of the fire, so it has no fuel to burn, then the fire will die down. Paddington’s London Story Treasury includes Paddington at the Zoo, Paddington at the Palace, Paddington and the Marmalade Maze and Paddngton and the Grand Tour, with the usual adventures and heart-warming mishaps of everyone’s favourite bear from Darkest Peru. The outward expansion of London was slowed by the war, and the introduction of the Metropolitan Green Belt. Due to this outward expansion, in 1965 the old County of London (which by now only covered part of the London conurbation) and the London County Council were abolished, and the much larger area of Greater London was established with a new Greater London Council (GLC) to administer it, along with 32 new London boroughs.

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Through the 19th and in the early half of the 20th century, Londoners used coal for heating their homes, which produced large amounts of smoke. In combination with climatic conditions this often caused a characteristic smog, and London became known for its typical "London Fog", also known as "Pea Soupers". London was sometimes referred to as "The Smoke" because of this. In 1952, this culminated in the disastrous Great Smog of 1952 which lasted for five days and killed over 4,000 people. In response to this, the Clean Air Act 1956 was passed, mandating the creating of "smokeless zones" where the use of "smokeless" fuels was required (this was at a time when most households still used open fires); the Act was effective. [46] Young people in Carnaby Street in 1966 Cross Bones Graveyard - Read about this unconsecrated memorial to the thousands of prostitutes who once worked in Southwark. 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.