This video explores the history and development of London, covering key topics such as: - The origins of Londinium - The ...

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The actual City of London is only one square mile in size and comprises the city's financial district. But the area that has become known as London is massive, measuring at around 610 square miles and ...

May 21 will mark 75 years since the end of the Blitz, nine infamous months of devastating bombing across the U.K. by Nazi Germany during World War II. But the bombardment did not stop then, ...

You won’t find Harry Beck’s face on any coins or postage stamps, but his fingerprints are all over London. Born in 1902, Beck was an English engineering draftsman who sparked a small revolution in the ...

Earlier today we highlighted the CCTV system that monitors Britons when they leave the house, riot or buy groceries. Below, we've created a map of how the surveillance state interacts with where ...

London is a city without an organizing principle. Its streets aren't numbered, like New York's, or lettered, like those in Washington, D.C. It's not laid out on a grid, like Chicago, and no Haussmann ...

The German Luftwaffe dropped thousands of bombs on London from 1939 to 1945, killing almost 30,000 people. More than 70,000 buildings were completely demolished, and another 1.7 million were damaged.

Chiswick, Notting Hill and Greenwich may strike many as some of the loveliest parts of London - but not Saul Sadka. The scholar has sparked a huge debate with a viral post highlighting the 'London ...