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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.

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

1. A handy decision map to London’s museums and galleries.

2. Sifting through the stories about the London Stone.

3. The remarkable story of the Coronation Chair.

4. Privatised London: the Thames Walk path that resembles a prison corridor.

6. Delightful 1985 film on Spitalfields conservation.

8. Lee Jackson’s lovely ‘Missing London‘ photo e-book.

10. Henry Mayhew’s street traders.

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