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Here are links to the top 10 gobbets of London history that caught our eye this week:

1. Soho stories: six decades of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll.

2. London’s Dreary Dockland: Dame Clara Butt sings at the Savoy, 1923.

4. Snuff said: a visit to Fribourg & Pontet, tobacconists of Pall Mall.

5. Remarkable artworks from Roman London.

6. John Wilkes and the St George’s Fields Massacre of 1768.

9. 16 fabulous colour photos of a weekend in London, 1959.

10. Walking London on VE Day, 1945 & 2015.

Here are links to the top 10 gobbets of London history that caught our eye this week:

1. The lovely A London Inheritance blog finds that not much has changed in Highgate since 1948.

2. Southwark Park ‘ghost station’ uncovered by Thameslink workers.

3. Massive Waterloo cartoon emerges from Royal Academy storage in time for bicentenary.

4. 50 years of the London boroughs in archive films.

7. The interior of the Old Bedford Music Hall, Camden by Walter Richard Sickert, 1890.

8. In search of Shakespeare’s London with the Spitalfields Life blog.

9. Stovepipe hats abound: daguerreotype of the great Chartist meeting at Kennington in April 1848.

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