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London History — 122 episodes

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162: Building Tower Bridge

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158: Finsbury Circus: Marsh to Metropolitan Marvels

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157: From Factory Floor to Black Market: The Button Theft Scandal

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156: Smithfield: London’s Theatre of Public Execution

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155: Tea with Churchill: Amelia Earhart's London Story

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154: White Conduit House: A Lost Pleasure Garden of Georgian Islington

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153: A Celebration of Sound: The Festival of Britain's Musical Journey

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BONUS EPISODE 2: The Great London Firsts Quiz

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152: The Peasant's Revolt Part I - How it Came About

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151: Love of Jane Austen in London

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150: Cracking London's Financial Glass Ceiling: The Story of Mary Harris Smith

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BONUS EPISODE Quiz Time: Uncovering London's Firsts Through History

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149: Milner Square: Through a Hole in the Wall

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148: Seven Dials in the Interwar Years

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147: The Russian Flu of 1892

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146: Jumping Tower Bridge

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145: Feasting in London: History of Puddings, Pies & Markets

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144: Who was Ebenezer Scrooge?

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143: Oliver Twist's London

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142: Monsters and Myths of London

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141: Mocked in London Part 1: Umbrellas

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140: The Iron Duke: Gadgets, Survival & Innovation

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139. Downing Street

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138. Dockside Gold: How Whales Transformed London

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137. The Thames Tunnel

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136. Ink & Industry

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136. Ink, Industry, and Innovation - London's Printing Revolution

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135. William Beckford

29

134. Organ Grinders of Little Italy

30

133. Royal Festival Hall's Organ

31

132. Suffragette or Suffragist - what would you have been?

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131. Endell Street Military Hospital

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130. Mudlarking Finds from Stuart London

34

129. 2 Temple Place

35

128. St James's Palace

36

127. Archie's Journey Through Dickens' London

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126. Transatlantic Slave Trade and London

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125. Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley in the Tower of London

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124. History of Tite Street, Chelsea

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123. Lord Mayor's Show

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122. Haunted Underground Stations

42

121. Suffragette Annie Kenney

43

120. Doctor Who in London

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119. Crystal Palace Football Club: How It Began

45

118. Francis Barber in Georgian London

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117. Eleanor of Aquitaine

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116. Caroline Crachami - The Sicilian Fairy

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115. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

49

114. Buckingham Palace

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113. The Gentleman's Magazine

51

112. Georgian London - Mudlarking Finds

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111. London's Nightclubs in the interwar years

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110. Crossness Pumping Station

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109. Coronations - a Short History

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108. Victorian Rat Catchers

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107. Rats - a Victorian problem

57

106. The History of Afternoon Tea

58

105. St Pancras Station

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104. Women's Rights Activist Annie Besant

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103. Annie Besant and Nineteenth-Century London

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102. Characters of Leadenhall Market

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101. Henry VIII's Navy

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100. Christmas Words

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99. Royal Christmas Speech - a modern tradition

65

98. Christmas Puddings Through History

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97. Temple Bar

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96. Gas Lamps of Westminster

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95. The Port of London in the Tudor period

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94. Jack Sheppard - the Celebrity Thief

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93. Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier

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92. Public Executions

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91. Radical MP John Wilkes

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90. Thomas Becket, Patron Saint of London

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89. Thomas Arne in Covent Garden

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88. The World's First Underground Railway

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87. An Introduction to Georgian London

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86. Shakespeare's London - Part 2

78

85. Shakespeare's London - Part 1

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84. London Geology

80

83. Dutch Eels in Medieval London

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82. Ballet in London

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81: Voltaire in London

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80. Disability in Tudor Times

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79. Landladies of Georgian London

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78. Georgian Lodgers and Landlords

86

77. The Delaunes of Blackfriars

87

76. Elizabeth and Mary: Tudor Cousins

88

75. The Christmas Cracker - A Victorian Invention

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74. Christmas in 1950s and 60s London

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73. Great Ormond Street Hospital

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72. Drs William and John Hunter

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71. Georgian Dentistry

93

70. Robert Hooke

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69. Victorian Actor William Terriss

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68. London's First Railway

96

67. London Street Names: Food Edition

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66. London's Blackout

98

65. London Nursery Rhymes

99

64. Medieval Toilets in London

100

63. Hendrix & Handel in London

101

62. James Scott, the First Duke of Monmouth

102

61. Medieval London at the Museum of London

103

60. Virginia Woolf & The Bloomsbury Set

104

59. Big Ben

105

58. Greenwich Palace and Hospital

106

57. The Gerald Coke Handel Collection

107

56. London's Black Cab Legacy

108

55. The Regency Cook

109

54. The Festival of Britain

110

53. Benjamin Franklin in London

111

52. St George's Day

112

51. Walk Through London's Forgotten Places

113

49. Myths of Regency Dress

114

47. Victorian Dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park

115

44. Tudor London & John Stow

116

42. How the National Gallery Began

117

40. Charles Dickens in Greenwich

118

39. London's Frost Fairs

119

33. London's Pillar Boxes

120

30. Quirky Street Names - Little Britain

121

25. The British Museum

122

23. London's Historic Pubs