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London history
Practical London guides tagged London history.
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Food and drink
The Best Wetherspoons in London, and the Case for the Chain
The best Wetherspoons in London, or best spoons: a 1913 banking hall, a Liverpool Street ballroom and a Grade I dock office, with the £1.89 refill coffee.
Food and drink
London's Historic Pubs and Dining Rooms
A 1667 warren off Fleet Street, a Thames pub trading five centuries, a banking hall and an old Westminster library — the London rooms worth going to for the room.
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London's Historic Houses and Churches: 17 to Visit
A house preserved by Act of Parliament, an art deco mansion built onto Henry VIII's childhood palace, and a Blitz-gutted church left as a shell.
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Hidden London: 20 Places Most Visitors Never Find
A wall recording ordinary people who died saving strangers, a tunnel of antique silver dealers, and a disused tram subway under Kingsway — London's hidden corners.
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London Plaques: A Guide to How They Work
Who puts up London's commemorative plaques, what the different colours indicate, and the rules a person has to meet before one goes up.
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London Blue Plaques: The Ones Worth Walking To
Mozart wrote his first symphony here aged eight, Engels hosted Marx for twenty years, and Hendrix and Handel lived in adjoining houses two centuries apart.