Here are links to our top 10 gobbets of London history this week: 

1. Re-imagining Elizabethan London with Mathew Lyons…

2. The lost world of the alleys. @thegentleauthor ventures into one of Spitalfields’ darkest corners.

3. Side by side as equals: Darwin and Wallace in Westminster Abbey. 

4. Cleaning Justice at the Old Bailey…

5. The 7 tallest buildings ever demolished in London…

6. An interactive map of C16 London. 

7. A lovely painting of Old London Bridge. 

8. Bedlam’s Big Dig – Crossrail article in the New Yorker…

9. Pipe Dreams: a short film commissioned by the Barbican to mark the passing of Crossrail’s Tunnel Boring Machines beneath the Barbican Estate. 

10. The quirky moles of Sub-Brit visit the Clapham South deep level air raid shelter.