Medieval london

Visualise London on Instagram: “📍Cloth Fair. 📅 1890s. The name 'Cloth fair' comes from the merchants who used to gathered to buy and sell goods during the Bartholomew…”

Medieval bridges were marvels of engineering, given the technology available at the time — and nowhere more so than in the case of London Bridge, where deep, tidal flows made construction incredibly challenging. David Harrison explains.

Discover old London Bridge, a wonder of the medieval and Tudor world! Learn about its history and appearance in the sixteenth century.

Discover old London Bridge, a wonder of the medieval and Tudor world! Learn about its history and appearance in the sixteenth century.

When it was completed in 1209, medieval London Bridge was the only fixed crossing of the Thames downstream of Kingston-upon-Thames (until Fulham Bridge was built in 1729). Remarkably, it was also home to some 500 people – equivalent to the population of a small medieval town. In London Bridge and its Houses, Dorian Gerhold has scoured the archives of Bridge House – the medieval charity that managed the bridge – to find out more about the community that lived on this extraordinary structure…

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The Arrival by Graham Turner: Edward IV enters London through Bishopsgate to reclaim the throne on the 11th April 1471

The famed English author, poet, and literary critic Samuel Johnson once said that "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in