Stories
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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.
Catalogue
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City plan of the vicinity of St Paul's church, London. Etching, 1773.
Date: 1773Reference: 25205i- Pictures
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Whittington College (almshouses), City of London: perspective view. Etching, c. 1835.
Date: 1835Reference: 24471i- Ephemera
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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.
Royal College of Surgeons of England.Date: 1808- Pictures
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Whittington College (almshouses), City of London: perspective view. Etching by W. Wallis, c. 1831.
Date: 1831Reference: 24472i- Books
Holistic guide / City X.
Date: 1994