The Growth of London: Every Year
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- The growth of London from its origins as a Roman town, to the modern megacity of today.
* = Until the late 19th century, the boundaries shown are the 'Parishes', the smallest unit of government in England. From 1894 these were gradually replaced by council districts.
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So as you may have guessed, this look a lot longer than expected (I've been working on it since early November last year). I may do more city videos in future (New York is likely to be the next one), but if I do I'll treat it as a long-term project and upload smaller videos in between. Thanks for watching!
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It would be great to see some other cities
It's awesome, keep doing what you're doing I love your maps!
Lol
Awesome! Yes, please do other cities.
_industrial revolution starts_
London to the surrounding countryside: *om nom nom*
That might have more to do with railways.
The industrial revolution was 100 years before that.
It wasn't to do with the industrial revolution, by 1863 the country had already become industrialised but the central areas of London were extremely overcrowded. The urban expansion was more to do with railways being extended to outer areas of London and people finding it more comfortable to settle in the suburbs.
V interesting!! it took alot longer for London to grow than many people assume, but it really took off after about 1890.
So it passed the 100,000 mark during the reign of Elizabeth I, saw 500,000 around 1680 and made it to a Million by 1810.
@@MtotheW the industrial revolution wasn’t one distinct moment
PHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAR!!!!!!!!!!!
map men
that is many exclamations
Only 2 likes?
Better see a unfinish map london men soon
The man himself, jay.
Industrialisation: *happens*
Green colors: *may we introduce ourselves*
When Weltreich?
Hey! Good to see you here! Love your vids!
@Crusader Knightz 393 It is not the industry itself that is causing environmental problems, but the mode of producing.
Industry on itself lifted humanity to a much higher stage of Historical development, and we can get even higher, only if the producers owned the means of production.
@Crusader Knightz 393 No actually life and living conditions were much worse before the industrial revolution
@Crusader Knightz 393 life was much worse before then..
I have no meme to think of, so I honestly just wanted to say that your maps are awesome and you somehow always nail new topics.
Well said.
fuck memes
i dont like london
@@destroyedtelephone4124 k
You have an anime as your pfp
Your opinion is invalid
The colour scheme is light and hence looks fresh and much more attractive to watch, well done!
RIP Middlesex gone but not forgotten.
RIP old Surrey
Yeah I was wondering that, as someone from Middlesex, what the hell happened to it?
@@syrus3657 Central government brought in reforms in the 60s that abolished it when they created the bloated monster that is Greater London.
@@syrus3657I was born there too! Unfortunately, along with the county of London, it ceased to exist in an administrative sense in 1965 when Greater London was created and the boundaries were rearranged. Most of it was incorporated into Greater London but some ended up as parts of Surrey, Hertfordshire and Berkshire.
Don't worry though because there are still 5 Middlesex counties in America! The middle saxons live on 🎷
miss ya big man
Damn... the plague and the War of the Roses sure hit hard
WW2 also
I noticed that population drop too
Ikr London lost half of its population from the plague and it slowly recovered and then it got it hard again and for like 20 years the population wasn’t growing until the 1400s and from the war of the roses it lost half of its population again. And also when London was part of the Roman Empire they pretty much lost all of there population from the bubonic plague
There were a couple of plague waves, plus WotRs
@@edRitchieeyeah but that was more do to the 1950s boom and in the west people moved to suburbs or surrounding areas. You can see it with America too. Thats why the population plummeted
To anyone who thinks this is over generalised work. It's really isnt. It's highly detailed. I know the history of my area and the land and I saw it develop exactly the way it should have. Well done
you must be very very old to have seen all that development !
@@stewartlancaster6155 I'm a vampire 🧛♂️ In all seriousness though the land registry and old parish maps collate exactly to this timelined video. The level of research every few seconds of screentime is insane as you would think someone on RUclips would generalise the data or simplify it but its just not
Lol so you have been around since 400
If my parents had moved to London in the early 1970s when house prices were low and the population down to 7.5 million they would have become property millionaires.
@The Truth. My parents sold their house in East Barnet for £21,000 in 1978 and moved to a cheaper house in Suffolk to raise money for their retirement. Meanwhile, a friend who still lived in the same street until recently told me the people who bought the house from my parents sold it a couple of years ago for £500,000 !
@@Derek_S yes but £21,000 was a lot of money in 1978.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 Not really as the income back then was also 21000 ish in the uk on avg
@@SM-ly5tf Average real income in 1978 was just under £7k.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 damnn my granpa at the time was making bank then
"You're not useless"
Me: British Isles ranking for london
I mean, at the start it wasn't 1st :P
@@xander1052 Winchester go brrr
@@NeongenesisXp More so cirencester as that was the original centre of Roman Britain
@@xander1052 Colchester you mean.
@@thomasrinschler6783 it was one of the two
Industrial Age: **Occurs**
London to the Countryside: *Hippity hoppity this is now my property*
All farmers lost their jobs lol
@Alfie Green Yeah and those open areas r just Parks
@Alfie Green They are. I can recognise a few of them. Some are private property but the majority are Parklands
@Alfie Green If you live in London you can at least recognise those places
@@arolemaprarath6615 ??
Fun fact - when you see "London" on the motorway telling you how many miles it is till you get there, its actually measuring how long it is to Charing cross. And it measures it there because some royal used to receive messengers at Charing cross from across the realm and is thus considered the place where London meets the outside world.
I found this when I was searching for any sort of guidance as to how big London was in Jane Austen’s time; (I'm doing Pride and Prejudice as part of a senior English course, and am a New Zealander who’s not yet had the pleasure of visiting London or the UK or Ireland.) I'm flabbergasted by how rapidly London grew after Austen’s time, especially during the Victorian era. Jane Austen wouldn't have recognised Victorian London. Thank you so much for making this. It's improved my understanding of London considerably. ❤
Last time I was this early. Ollie had finished his 1st 'History of the World'
47 - Londinium
2021 - London
2050 - Londonstan...
Yawn.
Ollie, I've known your channel since the first year you've been making videos. I'll be honest, I was a little dismissive of your videos early on, like that they were cute but not particularly informative or containing much historical value beyond painting a map. Now, seeing how far you've come and how much amazing detail you can find and put into your videos you've proves me wrong in so many ways and I couldn't be happier. Thanks for keeping on doing what you love, putting as much work and research into your projects as you do and continuing to teach your audience. This video sets a new standard for what we can expect from these kinds of videos, and I'm looking forward to seeing what amazing work you can put out next.
And the Lord said ”Let this become a new series”, and it was so, and God saw that it was good (and he pressed like).
Last time I was this early, londinium still existed. Also amazing job, ollie, starting off the year well
- 200 AD Roman London - Population 64,000 😊
- 1300 AD Medieval London- Population 40,000 😂
Needs a scale for size visualization, otherwise wow incredible project! Well done
Just remember that the City of London is 2.90 km2 (1.12 sq mi)
the greater lonon ara is about 50km wide end to end
@@sssddfsafsda494 Area*
Amazing how much London has spread. Seemed so large during the Victorian era but now that size looks small.
I was in London in October 2015 and explored a bit of the countryside as well. Would really love to go back again
as i'm a brit, i've took a train to london a few times, i've seen buckingham palace, elizabeth tower, and grenfell tower, which got covered up after the fire. last time i went there was in july 2019
I live close to London, and avoid it as much as I can.
It is too crowded and expensive.
Most times I go there is to get a train to other places.
@@rafaelcosta3238 It's not that crowded compared to other big cities especially the ones in India
Thing is most of the population is in the area built before 1900 it’s just surrounded by low density suburbs that take up way more space
@@joachimmacdonald2702 yup, that's bad
suggestion:
The Growth of Paris: Every Year
The Growth of Berlin: Every Year
The Growth of Rome: Every Year
The Growth of Istanbul: Every Year
The Growth of Saint Petersburg: Every Year
The growth of Rome would be very interesting, considering how it's expanded and contracted over the millennia.
Only cause I'm Canadian, the growth of Toronto every month lol
Konstantinopoli*
@@Lazar620 *Istanbul. Its been officially called Istanbul since the 1920s
@@solfennell8981 no turkish mud on greek land
Really liked the incredible graphics and animations, Its crazy to see how much London has grown since Roman Times. Great Job, Keep up the good work!
British people are now a minority in London now
British people need to vote for
Patriotic Alternative🇬🇧
"Ey wanna take the london look Ol' Champ"
**Literally nobody in the 500**
It's meant to be chap not champ
It shorts the distances scale.
Falta la escala de distancias.
Tfw London had a population in roman times that they didn't reach again until the 14th century. Roman times were truly the greatest
And the population of rome only recovered its imperial period numbers in the industrial revolution😳
@@Fred_the_1996 Shut up. Life in Rome wasn't good for 99% of people.
@@timothymatthews6458 ? What I said had nothing to do with the quality of life, ofc 19th century life was a lot better than roman life lmao. Still, the quality of life must've been way better in ancient rome than in the early middle ages
@VINNIE Abcde I hate the french and english. So no thanks.
@@y.r._ You hate the French and the English because you're jealous that those two countries had the biggest empires in history and were very powerful and are still very powerful today
Fascinating and horrible at the same time.
Good luck to the folks in the concrete jungle, won't be seen dead there (and that goes for every city).
Chinese cities: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
soon. Pakistanis and Syrians would demand an independent Islamic Republic of London lol
The fact you managed to find all the data is incredible!
The year is 3000 AD and London has consumed the world.
Eltham has Victorian buildings as does Beckenham, yet they show as uninhabited during the Victorian era on here. But generally pretty absorbing graphics that tell the story well.
İstanbul PLEASE!
u mean Constantinople ?
@@vattghern257 There is no city called Constantinople. The name of that city is Istanbul. I am from Turkey >:(
@@user-xm5eq5rm9o what else? You will call greek yoghurt, turkish? Ha!
Kappa
@@vattghern257 FATIH SULTAN MEHMET conquered Istanbul in 1453. Now get the f#ck out of here. Istanbul Turkey alanine. The name of that city is ISTANBUL!🖕🤛
@@user-xm5eq5rm9o Ha! go with that weirdo
West Ham
*Best Ham*
Diagnosis: Cancer.
Happy New Years Ollie. Glad to see you back!
Me too, tou're my favourite map youtuber! :)
Congratulations for your job. Now, you can do cities like Madrid, Paris or Roma?
@Antonio Ferrara But in medieval age, Roma had decreases and dropouts interesting to see.
Absolutely incredible video! Thanks so much for the effort in creating it - so interesting to see the expansion of my hometown over 2,000 years!
a Good thing to add was the 1666 Great Fire of London, four fifths of the city was Destroyed or Half Destroyed
It seemed to stop expanding in the final years. I guess it hit the green belt, and started to build high rise instead. It's better to develop some other cities than to keep growing London to eat up the countryside.
Amazing video and really well produced. Bravo.
Loved working out the rough maths of the expansion - but was really interesting to see the population only passed half a million around 1680, but it's grown 20x that in the past 350 years.
London, Yorkshire, And Nottinghamshire are some of the nicest looking parts of England
I mean, I think London used to be better
Having lived in London I thought it was the ugliest looking part of England.
in london you cannot find any britons at all, it's like you enter another country
I sort of expected a huge chunk to disappear when it hit 1666.
A turtle approved this cool video
good turtle
Thanks turtle
People will blame tea
Everyone's going on about the start of the 1800s, but London almost doubled in size in the 1930s alone!
As a Londoner, born and raised, I wish I could say London is a nice place to be in but imo I don't really like it at all. Next year me and my family are moving to the countryside and I'm very much excited to move out of here. It's simply too overpopulated and ATM overpriced. Though if you enjoy the city life and being surrounded by people this is the place for you. personally I prefer the peace of the countryside.
Can you make a growth video of New York City, next?
Londonistan you mean...
Loved the detail, especially little things like the evolution of Heathrow in the past 60 years which I found fascinating!
"Britannia"
*rule the waves*
Why do you post unfunny try hard comments on every video?
Iberia ruled more because Felipe II shared no ocean with any rival except three seas with Turks (Med. Red & Persian Gulf).
as a Irish guy, I feel offended.
@@galaxyred7 I plan to learn Irish.
@@galaxyred7 what do you feel offended about? Asks a fellow Irish guy
I really like this style of Animation and the new topic!
Also join his discord
Woah what happened to the population at 1:39?
Plague
Bubonic plague
Out of 2000 years of history, London saw the most exponential growth in one century.
Thats what expolential growth is. In 1000 years it doubles, from tiny to small then 500 years from small to less small then 250 to sizable then 120 to giant and 60 to... green belt and basically the same.
Hey Ollie! Can you make a video on History of Nepal?
Remember the outer lying regions had villages and towns that were also growing, it wasn't all just empty land. They just got swallowed up.
A lot of the more recent growth is political geographical changes to boundaries etc. Croydon wasn't classed as part of London even when I was a kid and the map shows Caterham on the southern outskirts. People today wouldn't class that as London.
All that said, a very well made vid.
Im not gonna lie but at 2:59, it looks like Bermondsey is Iran and Redrith is Afghanistan…
Londonistan
So basically
London never changed it's borders and London begun to grow around London and made London into the biggest city in the world while London becomes the City of London within London but is actually the London London from the days London was founded
London was never conquered by the Normans which is why the tower of London exists. The Normans built 2 other castles to surround London. Also the city of London has it's own police force, separate to the metropolitan police which covers the surrounding area.
@@skylarius3757 That's a bit of a misleading distinction. London was never conquered through the means of a siege, no. But that's because ultimately it didn't need to be because it almost immediately submitted to Norman rule and was assimilated into Norman society. The castles outside London were not because it was independent, they were to guard against uprising, just as castles were used similarly throughout William's kingdom. The fact that William was able to build the Tower immediately outside the Roman walls was because it had submitted; that task would be somewhat more difficult if the citizens were resisting. The positioning of the Tower, overlooking the old city, was one of domination.
William recognised London's special rights and privileges through London's 1067 charter, but just because it had special rights doesn't mean that it wasn't within his kingdom. In fact it proves that it was - how can William issue a charter for a city if he doesn't rule it? After a fire in 1077, in which the original Tower was destroyed, William decreed that all fires in the City must be extinguished at night. Despite this, another fire in 1087 destroyed St Paul's, which was immediately rebuilt by William. Again, how was William rebuilding structures in the middle of a city he didn't rule? The Bishops of London, based at St Paul's (Hugh d'Orevalle, Maurice, Richard de Beaumis, Gilbert Universalis), were all Norman appointments. Again, how?
London
Maybe the real Londons were the friends we made along the way.
Did you just use London 10 times in one sentence?
Please do one about Moscow. It's the biggest city in Europe proper by population (not considering Istanbul because it's on 2 continents), and also the 3rd biggest city by area. Probably not too many sources to go on a about, but Moscow is not as old as London so you can probably manage something.
Istanbul would be great also.
Before you make a mistake, Everyone would aprecciate it if you transliterated Moscow as Moskva, and also, Istanbul's official name was Konstantiniyye right up until 1923, when the republican constitution renamed it officially to Istanbul, so there's that as well.
Please do İstanbul as well.
IT'S CALLED BYZANTION
Yes, the might of Constantinople would be awesome to watch!
@@Fred_the_1996 🤦🏼♂️
@@metehankanmaz8805 it was a joke
@@Fred_the_1996 Okay. 😶
intresting they were 8 millioner white Englishmen in London 100 years ago, while today, 9 000 000 ppl, less than 35% are ethnic Englishmen.
BREAKING NEWS:
*London Annexed England*
*London Annexed the UK*
*London Annexed the world*
*EVERYWHERE IS LONDON*
England is my city - London
What a horrible idea.
Londoners on their way to say that a rural Nebraskan farmer is overpopulating and polluting the Earth
broo, the ammount of details and so good editing, this is beyond perfect
Hola.
¿ Dónde pusiste la escala de distancias ?
Grave error .
Siempre hay que incluirla.
Hi.
Where did you put the distance scale?
Big mistake.
You always have to include it.
Ollie, love your videos. Can you do one for the growth of Tokyo? We always see the west, never the east.
What happened to 1665 (the great plague) and 1666 (the great fire)? Great loss of life and great loss of housing and other property. But the statistics present on this graphic don't even register. Everything goes on just as it always had done. It completely destroys any faith I might have in this model. Hopefully someone can explain please.
London is London no more now
MEDIEVAL TIMES WERE THE BEST
@@robinhood7874 💀💀💀💀
London 1000AD
Population:10,000
Constantinople 1000AD
Population:500,000
Literally 50x the size of London.
In the last 20 seconds of the animation the population increased by 2 million and the native English got replaced and dispossessed.
You showed the river fleet, but where is the Walbrook?, and the river fleet was still visible for way longer than shown in the video
Welcome back !
So when Shakespeare was working in London, there were only 180k people living there. Crazy!
This is INCREDIBLE! How I love my home city, London. Watching this was beautiful. Absolutley insane the growth from the 20's/30's up until WW2. Its nothing less than an explosion.
You can really see reason behind the current housing issues - after the late 60's they just stop building.
These city growths are super interesting! Could you do Warsaw or Krakow next?
Put together brilliantly but frightening. We cannot control our numbers. The future is bleak.
I'd love to see one on Amsterdam or Venice, because of the waterways
Venice would be pretty boring after the late 1600s as it basically stayed the same
@@nicolamiceli9097 Unless one went to the Terra Firma of course...
@@scipioafricanus5871 yeah if it was just the city proper
4x the size of Victorian London but prob less native English living there 😂
This is a step forwards in mapping, amazing video.
What are the sudden population drops though?
(Thumps up so that everyone will find the answer in the comments as soon as someone who knows the answer comments it).
I am first to view
Yes
I am curious where you are getting your demographic information. Between 1665 and 66. close to 150,000 people either died or moved out of the city from a combination of plague and great fire, but the growth rate in your presentation stayed consistent.
3:28
Bermondsey looks like Iran.
Dear Ollie, greetings from Colombia. What's the software you use to do the maps?
01:39 Black Death has entered the chat
Was there seriously no celts living in any of the free buildings in London in 500AD?
Very impressive, please also do one for the other top 10 largest cities in the UK: Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Bristol, Sheffield, and Edinburgh.
Birmingham started existing around 700AD as a Saxon village (named after Beorma) and remained a village until Victorian times. Like London, surrounding villages (e.g. Erdington named after Eordwulf I think?) grew together to form the city.
Other sources says London has 8.7 million people nowdays...
No one:
London from the victorian period: LET'S BECOME FOCKING BEIG!
Get the tea and biscuits as you watch this video.
The coolest mapping of 2021 so far
London as Alan Partridge once said " spelt S,H.I,T,E " .Yip can't disagree
A little bit of pessimism:
Name: Londonistan
Year: 2050
2021 : *still 20th Century*
How a small village became a mega city.
in the 2000s, i think it's past the 20th century era as shown. Probably could call it "contemporary"
Not really worth it just for 21 years, and there hasn't been much outward expansion since then anyway.