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London (Welcome (Home of phone booths, black cabs, posh accents & not…
London
Welcome
Home of phone booths, black cabs, posh accents & not so posh accents. Oliver Twist, Jack Ripper, James Bond.
What U know- Spice Girls- Refresh Hist
Evid Prehistoric, kicked off Roms
Conq 55BC, welcome 6 tribes
Gave up goat, 97yrs. 43 AD Emp Claudius tries
Estab Londinium- Hyde P. Tribes surend, Law- Take weaps
Boudica. Iceni Rebel, rallied, secret weap. Slaught, torch L, 1/2m char. 70k kill.
Decades- L recover, exp 60K pop. Capitol. Ruins- baths Hadrians wall, scots
5th RomFall, left B- Enter Vikings (AngloSax)- Lon Bridge Nurs- Rape
Hist Cont
Normans- inv WillConq. Built ToL- Stronghold. Castle, Palace, Arm, Prison, Zoo. City grew cesspit - Thames, Bridges Poop
Tudors, 1485. Henry 7th, 8th, boy heirs, Wives, curse, Church E, Peace treat. Eliz-Gold
Up/Down, 17th -Civwar KCharlesI, Gov OlivCrom. Behead 1649. Plague 100K.1/2 pop. RingaRosy. Great Fire 1666, 80% burnt. Rebuilt stone not wood
Chris Wren Opp, 51 church, St Pauls. Given Cont gov builds in GB. Lib Camb Uni.
Skip Cs 19th Vic, expand, indust, railways. Centre world trade, large, powerful em. Build - Houses Parl, 1st Tube 1862
Today: metrop, pop cult, Fash cap, mus: RolSt, Fleet, Que, Bloc Par, Base Jax, ColdPla. Film: NotHil,4WedFun, LoveAct. SherHol, 221B Baker st, Museum,
20th Dept Stores - Fash, Harrods, Self. WWII - Blitz. Keep Calm. Damage all, St Paul. Bomb- Mod Build. Shelt-Tube, fled.
Extra
Monopoly, drinkg. Streets- HAHArd, Hooker Rd, Cocklane(Prost) once- Shitburnelane, Pissing All, Gropecunt Lane. Cockfosters stat.
Black Cabs, difficult test, geo, 320 routes, 25k sts, 20k Landmarks, 7k Pubs. 2-4yrs
Serial Kil: Wish for death, JackR, 1888-91. SweenT, Demon Barb. Bloody Mary.
Nice Peop- Queen, Charles, Will+Kate, Fut Husb Harry. Controversy. Eliz, Ed VIII-Abdict.
Stats: 18mil vis, 300 lang. Diverse on earth. 70 billionaires, most. But if love more than money, lets head to France.