London’s history

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Everything you know about 17th-century London is wrong

The British Pathe film documents the terrible smog, caused by the burning of coal, that smothered London for five days in December 1952. To watch the film, of to www.britishpathe.com/video/the-smog-menace/query/smog

History on film: London is smothered by a dangerous smog

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The Great Fire of London: two historians discuss the events and legacy of the 1666 blaze . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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“Welcome home, Charlie”: Chaplin’s postwar return to London

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A prodigy in England: Lucy Worsley on Mozart’s London odyssey . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Shakespeare’s London: playing a dangerous game

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10 dangers of Georgian London

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First World War

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about London’s first zeppelin raid in 1915

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Love, health and the weather: 9 things medieval Londoners worried about

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Q&A Did the Thames used to freeze over?

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Amazing inventions and London after dark . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Old news: A tiger braves the mean streets of east London

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Q&A Could you really once be hanged for impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner?

A depiction of a public hanging of a bandit. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London

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New website charts London’s well-being across 125 years