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London is the UK’s capital and the largest city in the country, with a population of 8.8 million people. The city is located in the southeast of England on the River Thames. The City of London spans 1.1 square miles (2.9 square km) in the central region of Greater London. Greater London encompasses a broader metropolitan area with a ...
11 de may. de 2024 · The White Tower, the central keep of the Tower of London. Immediately after his coronation (Christmas 1066), William I the Conqueror began to erect fortifications on the site to dominate the indigenous mercantile community and to control access to the Upper Pool of London, the major port area before the construction of docks farther downstream ...
The purpose of Working Paper 85 is to describe the structure and make-up of London’s economy in different parts of the capital and is thus a companion piece to the recently published Economic Evidence Base for London 2016. It provides a descriptive account of the economic structure of London’s sub regions in terms of jobs, economic output ...
26 de jun. de 2015 · London is a popular setting for literature – one often characterised by crime, confusion, filth and vice, and not just in Dickens’ time. Lucy Scholes explains.
London, 1780-1900. [Anonymous], English School, 19th century Snow Hill, Holborn (1848). From Wikimedia Commons. In 1780, London held some 750,000 men, women and children in a compass of just a few square miles. By 1900 it was home to more than 5 million people – 9 million if you include the greater metropolitan area - and had extended its ...
15 de dic. de 2013 · Description of the most noble city of London. [William Fitzstephen, who died about the year 1190, was a trusted clerk in the service of Thomas à Becket, and was present at his murder. He wrote the Life of his great chief, and prefaced it with this description of London. The original was written in Latin.
17 de mar. de 2015 · The numbers involved make the year of 1665 stand out but London throughout the reign of the Stuarts – and before – had been affected by the plague. 1603: Plague deaths = 30,578; total deaths in London = 38,244. 1604: Plague deaths = 896; total deaths in London = 5,219. 1605: Plague deaths = 444; total deaths in London = 6,392.
