Rick Steves

While London sits upon an ancient Roman foundation (Londinium), today’s city was shaped in a powerful way by England’s Industrial Revolution. In 1800, London had about a million people. By 1900, its population had quadrupled to over four million, as people came from the countryside into the big city for the promise of a good job and a better life. “The best of times and the worst of times,” this was the London of Charles Dickens and his A Tale of Two Cities.

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