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Here are links to the top 10 gobbets of London history we liked this week:

1. A brief but lovely history of London maps.

2. Visscher redrawn. The panorama of London 400 years on.

4. More Cries of London from @thegentleauthor.

5. The Barbican Estate: a town reconstructed from its cellars.

8. First ever public tours of Henry V’s chapel.

9. Postman’s Park – one of London’s most unusual memorials.

…and finally, two pieces on London’s Northern Heights…

Here are links to the10 gobbets of London history that we liked most this week:

1. The Victorian splendour of Highgate Cemetery.

2. New podcast from the Oxford DNB: Dennis Severs, creator of 18 Folgate Street.

3. The chapel of St Thomas-a-Becket on Old London Bridge.

4. Where the Knollys Roses grow: the lovely ‘secret garden’ of Seething Lane.

6. A visit to the old church at Perivale.

7. As another Ashes series comes to a close, a look at some of The Oval’s finest moments.

8. To Hell in a handcart? A final journey revisited: Newgate to Tyburn.

9. London’s oldest public drinking fountain.

10. A walk from Lambeth Palace to Waterloo Station, using Bradshaw’s Guide.

More? If you like our weekly gobbets, you might also like some of our longer posts on London’s history:

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