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The History of London with Dr Ian Stone
Великобритания
Добавлен 1 авг 2016
I am a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London who teaches undergraduate courses in the history of London. I publish my research in academic and non-academic titles. This channel allows me to bring my research to an even wider audience.
Bermondsey Leather Trail
Bermondsey, in south London, was once the largest leather producing district in Britain. In this video, I walk around Bermondsey looking for traces of this former industry. The walk forms part of a project to tell the history of the leather trade in the United Kingdom. If you have any photos, documents, or memories that might be useful for that project, then please do get in touch in the comments below.
If you are interested in the history of London, you might like my blog: ianstone.london/blog/
If you are interested in the history of London, you might like my blog: ianstone.london/blog/
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An interview with Dr Marc Morris, author of The Anglo-Saxons: A history of the beginnings of England
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Dr Marc Morris is an historian and broadcaster. He is an expert on medieval monarchy and aristocracy, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Marc has written several books, numerous articles for magazines, and he has contributed to various history programmes on radio and television. In this episode, Marc joins me to discuss his latest book. The Anglo-Saxons: A history of the beginnings o...
Walking through historic Blackheath and Greenwich
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An exploration of Blackheath and Greenwich is one of the best walks in London. In this video, I walk a route through these two historic villages, discussing their rich history. If you are interested in the history of London, you might like my blog: ianstone.london/blog/ You can subscribe to my blog here: feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IanStoneHistorian&loc=en_US www.ianstone.london
George A Roberts. Soldier. Firefighter. Londoner.
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George Arthur Roberts lived a remarkable life. Born in Trinidad, he served as a solider in the British Army in the First World War, and as a fireman in the Auxiliary Fire Service in the Second World War. In London, he was a founder member of the Camberwell branch of the Royal British Legion and of the League of Coloured Peoples. In this video, I am joined by historian Stephen Bourne to see what...
Walking London's Walls
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In December 2020, I walked the route of London’s old city walls using an app called Relive to trace and then map my walk. The stone walls, which surrounded London to the east, north and west were built early in the third century when Britain was under Roman rule. They were maintained and used throughout the Middle Ages, only becoming obsolete in the sixteenth century. The route runs for three m...
The History of London with Dr Ian Stone
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The History of London with Dr Ian Stone
Mary Seacole's Statue, St Thomas's Hospital, London
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In 2016, following a thirteen-year campaign, a statue commemorating Mary Seacole was unveiled outside St Thomas's Hospital in London. Today, there is a great deal of discussion about taking statues down. In this video, I ask why we want still to put them up. If you are interested in the history of London, you might like my blog: ianstone.london/blog/ You can subscribe to my blog here: feedburne...
Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square, London
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Trafalgar Square, named after the Battle of Trafalgar fought in 1805, is London’s biggest and grandest public square. It sits at the heart of the capital city and the nation; previously, it was at the heart of empire too. In the middle of the square stands Nelson's Column, a memorial to the brilliant yet imperfect hero who commanded the British fleet at the Battle, Admiral Viscount Nelson, and ...
The Statue of Sir Charles Napier in Trafalgar Square, London
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Sir Charles Napier (1782-1853) is one of two army officers commemorated in Trafalgar Square in London. When he was mayor of London, Ken Livingstone said that he hadn't a clue who either were. In this video, I introduce Napier and explore the reasons why Victorian society commemorated him with a statue in London's biggest and grandest public square. I then ask how we should understand the statue...
Wilkes and Liberty! Liberty, Political Radicalism and Popular Protest in Eighteenth-Century London
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John Wilkes was one of the most controversial figures ever to have graced the political stage in London and Great Britain. He was a cultured, charming and courageous man of high-minded principle, but also an untrustworthy, unsympathetic, and unfortunate-looking man of the lowest possible morals. He was imprisoned for two years for printing a seditious libel and an obscene publication, yet his s...
The Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor. Brune Street, Spitalfields, London
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A soup kitchen to feed east London's Jewish poor was founded in 1854. In 1902, it moved to a new site in Brune Street, Spitalfields. In the late nineteenth century, the number of Jews living in east London rose dramatically and the Soup Kitchen was just one of the many institutions which met this community's social, religious and cultural needs. In this video, I discuss the history of the Soup ...
'We are the Commune of the City'. Elections, Exemptions and Exclusions in Thirteenth-Century London
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In 1272 the election of London’s mayor descended into chaos. A huge crowd of Londoners took to the streets in support of Walter Hervey, an alderman, who was their choice for mayor. Hervey’s fellow aldermen, who claimed the right to elect the mayor, opposed Hervey’s election and supported their own candidate. As far as the aldermen were concerned, Hervey was a dangerous and divisive populist who...
King Henry III of England. An interview with Prof David Carpenter
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King Henry III was king of England from 1216 to 1272. He came to throne as a nine-year-old boy in the midst of a civil war with half the country occupied by an army led by a French prince. His father, King John, had rejected Magna Carta. Henry and his allies embraced it, helping them to victory in the civil war. But Henry, who was kind and pious, but also naïve and imprudent, struggled to gover...
A Box in the Attic: Rediscovering the Lost Story of a Soldier in the Great War 1914-18.
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Bill Hoare was twenty-two years old when he was killed on 13 November 1916 at the Battle of the Ancre, one of the last engagements of the Somme offensive. His Great War record was, like that of so many other British soldiers, lost in the Blitz of London in 1940, and his family, who seemed to have struggled to come to terms with their loss, never really discussed what had happened to Bill. In th...
Wren's Masons: The Strongs and the Rebuilding of London after the Great Fire.
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The Strongs were a family of stonemasons from the Cotswolds in England. Following the Great Fire of London in 1666, several members of the family moved to London where they were responsible for building some of the most beautiful structures in the new city. In this video I discuss the history of the family, the buildings which they helped to raise, and what their careers can tell us about the c...