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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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Fairs, fires and the future of Smithfield

As meat trading in the area ends, Tom Bolton looks at the history of London’s Smithfield, which has been a place of healing and death, markets and mess for 900 years.

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Pepys and the plague

Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed, the streets emptied and bodies piled up. Read Samuel Pepys’s account of how the city pulled through.

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  • Domine dirige nos / [Corporation of the City of London].
  • Domine dirige nos / [Corporation of the City of London].
  • City of London Lying-in Hospital. Engraving.
  • A general list of the members of the Royal College of Surgeons in England : members who reside and practise, or who have resided and practised, in or within seven miles of the City of London ... members who do not reside or practise, in or within seven miles of the City of London.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, City of London. Engraving.
  • Whittington College (almshouses), City of London: perspective view. Etching, c. 1835.
  • City of London Lying-in Hospital: the facade. Engraving by J. Roberts.
  • City of London: map of Coleman Street and the surrounding environs with key. Etching.
  • City of London Freemen's Orphan School, Brixton, London. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1854, after B. Sly.
  • Water-wheel at London Bridge for supplying water from the Thames to the City of London. Engraving, 1749.
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