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London Long Reads.
Essays on London and London places: how they came to be, what to look for, and why they are the way they are.
Themes
Themes · The World in London
Capital of Exiles
How London became a refuge, printing press, political headquarters and waiting room for revolutionaries, deposed rulers, nationalists and governments in exile.
Neighbourhoods
Art · Covent Garden
Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column
The symbolic heart of London: Barry's square with Nelson fifty-two metres above it, and Landseer's lions to climb on.
Areas · Spitalfields & Brick Lane
Spitalfields: A Portrait
A neighbourhood shaped by refuge, trade and reinvention — from Huguenot silk weavers and Jewish tailors to Bengali restaurateurs, market porters, preservationists, artists and the people who still call it home.
Areas · The City
The City of London: Money, Monarchy and the Square Mile
How a Roman port became a merchant republic inside a kingdom, and why so much of its medieval machinery - wards, Aldermen, livery companies, a Remembrancer watching Parliament - is still running.
Buildings & monuments
Museums · Victoria
Buckingham Palace
Nash's palace for George IV, refaced for George V, and the State Rooms Victoria complained were too small.
Museums · Westminster
Houses of Parliament & Big Ben
Barry and Pugin's Gothic palace, the Great Clock and the cracked bell everyone calls Big Ben, with Westminster Hall of 1097 at its heart.
Museums · Butler's Wharf
Tower Bridge
Two towers, the high walkways with a glass floor over the road, and the Victorian machinery that lifted it.
Museums · Hyde Park Corner
Wellington Arch
Decimus Burton's arch at Hyde Park Corner, with the largest bronze sculpture in Europe on top and balconies inside to climb to.
Art · Knightsbridge
Albert Memorial
The most extravagant thing the Victorians built, and worth walking round twice.