Mobility’s impact on the lives of medieval Londoners and on the sense of neighborhood beyond the walls...
London
London grew from a Roman settlement into a global metropolis shaped by migration and political change. Explore the people and events that transformed the city across centuries.
The rebuilding of London Bridge in stone was a significant bridge building project. The rebuilding of London...
The alien subsidies are not the only source for resident immigrants in England. The publication in 1998...
Insights into the local sociability and networks of the ‘middling’ strata of medieval London society. Introduction One...
There was a constant negotiation of status and authority in the community. Introduction Finding your place in...
The workings of marginalization had a direct impact on the uses of London’s spatial periphery. Introduction Underlying...
The social lives of medieval Londoners reveal how far they were drawn into the centralizing forces of...
Distinctive laces in the cityscape in geographic and economic terms. Introduction A walk through fifteenth-century London, from...
Nestled on the banks of the River Thames, the Tower of London stands as a symbol of...
Some of the earliest written references to the Thames are in Julius Caesar’s account from 54 BCE....
The resulting texture of the metropolis has a diversity of buildings unlike any other. In 1942, at...
A combination of poverty and “plague orders” in 1665 trapped many in situations that meant almost certain...
Keeping your head up was tough in Roman times. Public domain During a 1988 excavation on London Wall 39 human...
By Dr. Chris Hilton / 11.30.2016 Former Senior Archivist Wellcome Library Eighty years ago, on 30 November 1936, a...
Aldermen of the City of London Corporation represented as Chinese and as monsters in procession to Westminster...
By Dr. Helen J. Paul / 11.04.2015Lecturer in Economics and Economic HistoryUniversity of Southampton Abstract The South...
Lecture by Dr. Roger Tomlin at the Museum of London / 10.10.2017 Professor Emeritus Wolfson College University...