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SOURCE: Reuters
10/19/2020
'Slavery and the City' Tour Sheds Light on London's Dark Past
An organization advocating for the teaching of Black history in British schools has organized walking tours demonstrating the degree to which the city's financial and political institutions were tied to slavery.
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8/30/2020
The Proud City: Patrick Abercrombie's Unfulfilled Plan for Rebuilding London
by Simon Jenkins
In 1942, the British government endorsed a plan that turned the Blitz into an opportunity for massive centrally-planned rebuilding of London. This was a break from the previous anarchic pattern of development, and, for better or worse, today's eclectic metropolis owes its form to the failure of the plan.
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SOURCE: Reuters
6/18/2020
Lloyd's of London to Pay for 'Shameful' Atlantic Slave Trade Role
The Lloyd’s of London insurance market apologised on Thursday for its “shameful” role in the 18th and 19th Century Atlantic slave trade and pledged to fund opportunities for black and ethnic minority people.
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SOURCE: TIME
4/14/2020
How the ‘Father of Epidemiology’ Made the Connection Between Disease and Geography
by Deirdre Mask
“The poor were dying in disproportionate numbers not because they suffered from moral failings,” Steven Johnson writes. “They were dying because they were being poisoned.”
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4/12/2020
Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year and the Year of COVID-19
by Frank Palmeri
Defoe's accomplishment as a work of history lies not so much in the accuracy of its numbers or facts as in its power as a work of fiction, in the observing eye and skeptical intelligence of H.F., and in the stories he tells, which convey through common language and the details of common life what it was like to live through the plague.
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SOURCE: CNN
4/13/19
Shakespeare’s London Home Where He Wrote ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Identified by Historian
Theater historian Geoffrey Marsh spent a decade meticulously researching the home of the English dramatist and poet by cross-referencing official records to pinpoint where exactly Shakespeare lived during the 1590s.
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3/19/19
London at War, 1941, and a New Alice in Wonderland
by Bruce Chadwick
Can you really spend a better evening than chasing a white rabbit trotting through the forest with a pocket watch in his hand? A review of Alice By Heart.
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SOURCE: NYT
Parliament Square in London Is Closer to Having First Female Statue
London officials announced in April that they would rectify the omission of women in Parliament Square by placing a statue of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), who campaigned for women’s right to vote, on the square. Now we can see the statue.
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SOURCE: VOA
3-26-17
8,000 Years of London History Discovered Underground
The underground Crossrail project to connect Heathrow airport to the financial district has unearthed over 10,000 artifacts.
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SOURCE: PBS
7-29-16
London skyline rising but the history below ground is far more fascinating
As the skyline changes at a head-spinning clip, archaeologists, by law, are digging down, uncovering fascinating artifacts.
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SOURCE: NYT
8-25-15
For History-Minded Tourists, London Marks Blitz Anniversary
This September marks the 75th anniversary of the Blitz. London’s robust tourism industry will commemorate the capital’s time under siege.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
7-29-15
Museum billed as celebration of London women opens as Jack the Ripper exhibit
Museum branded a ‘sick joke’ after obtaining planning permission by promising ‘the only dedicated resource in the East End to women’s history’
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SOURCE: Londonist
New Video Beautifully Blends Old And New London
Simon Smith, who last year produced a staggering side-by-side comparison of London in 1927 and 2013, is back.
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SOURCE: AP
1-27-15
Smithsonian working to finalize deal for new site in London
The Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex, is working to establish its first international museum outpost in London as that city redevelops its Olympic park, officials said Tuesday.
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SOURCE: Historic UK
10-17-14 (accessed)
It’s the 200th anniversary of the London Beer Flood of 1814
A bizarre industrial accident resulted in the release of a beer tsunami onto the streets around Tottenham Court Road.
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SOURCE: Mashable
10-14-14 (accessed)
London in the Blackout
The wartime city in darkness and stark white light
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SOURCE: NYT
8-12-13
Sign by sign, history is told on London's walls
LONDON — Not that it is unusual to see shabby old buildings being gutted by construction workers in a rapidly gentrifying area of east London like Hackney Road, but I felt a pang of regret when I spotted them starting work on one last week. I wasn’t concerned about its architecture, which is much the same as that of any of the other 19th-century terraced houses in the neighborhood, but about the signage.“To all responsible person” is painted in big black letters on the front of the building, and a description of a locksmith and safe maker is engraved on the side wall. “John Tann’s Reliance Locks, Fire & Burglarproof, Safes, Iron Doors,” it begins. Both signs have long outlived their usefulness: like the missing “s” at the end of “person,” Tann’s workshop disappeared decades ago.Will those signs survive the house’s renovation? I doubt it. The only reason they are still there is because the building has been neglected for so long, and was not deemed to be worth repairing or rebuilding until recently. Yet if the signs are removed, the neighborhood will be the poorer, having lost part of its character and some poignant symbols of its history....
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SOURCE: BBC News
8-8-13
Crossrail unearths evidence humans lived on Thames in 7,000 BC
Rare evidence that humans lived on the River Thames 9,000 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists working on the Crossrail project.A Mesolithic tool-making factory featuring 150 pieces of flint was found at the tunnelling worksite in Woolwich.Archaeologists said prehistoric Londoners were using the site to prepare river cobbles which were then made into flint tools.Gold has also been discovered at its site in Liverpool Street....
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SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
8-7-13
Remains of 16th century Londoners found in Bedlam burial ground
Crossrail archaeologists have unearthed the remains of patients from the infamous Bedlam Hospital, the world's first psychiatric asylum.The skeletons, unearthed in the UK's largest archaeological site, belonged to a few of the 20,000 people interred in a burial ground established adjacent to the psychiatric asylum.Crossrail's lead archaeologist Jay Carver said: "we've got a sixteenth century burial ground existing right below our feet in the road here, about two metres from where we're standing are the skeletons of perhaps up to four thousand people who live and died in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."...
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SOURCE: AP
8-7-13
Work on new railway line unearths layers of London history
LONDON — Jewelry, pieces of ships, medieval ice skates, centuries-old skulls — some fascinating pieces of London’s history aren’t in museums, but underground.More often than not, they stay there, but work on a new railway line under the British capital is bringing centuries of that buried history to light.The 118-kilometer (73-mile) Crossrail line is Britain’s biggest construction project and the largest archaeological dig in London for decades. In the city’s busy business core, archaeologists have struck pay dirt, uncovering everything from a chunk of Roman road to dozens of 2,000-year-old horseshoes, some golden 16th-century bling — and the bones of long-dead Londoners....
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