New London

which started on 7th September also vastly affected people’s lives and caused circa 45,000 deaths due to the bombings and destruction. This additionally led to thousands of people left homeless and two million homes were destroyed, but the majority in London. This essay will analyse and evaluate a wide range of sources using my own historical knowledge showing how peoples' lives were affected in World War Two. Evacuation affected millions of British civilians and started on 1st September…

Design Brief: History of London Bridge Station – 500 London Bridge Station is one of the busiest stations in London and it is always changing. The first station was opened on 14 December 1836 at Tooley Street, which is currently the first and oldest station in London. It was opened by the London and Greenwich Railway (LGR). To make money they decided to lease its line and terminus to other railway companies from the south east that wanted access to London. The London and Croydon Railway…

After reading the Overview of Kelo v. New London Case and other eminent domain videos, it is difficult to not feel sympathy for these property owners who are heart-broken by the government’s actions. At the same time, it would be unfair to view a situation from one perspective. For property owners, having their property vanished is their worst nightmare, whether it’s for good or bad reasons. I say that to say, that no matter what the government’s intentions are for eminent domains, it is not…

What makes people want to go to the city of London? Many people would answer that there is a lot of historical places to see. In William Blake’s poem, “London”, readers are brought on a trip back in time to a part of the city’s history that tourist now find go to see. This time traveling experience of the poem certainly isn’t pleasant because the whole text is focused around a negative era in this England city. Throughout the four stanzas and sixteen lines readers feel different emotions such as…

Today marks a significant time stone; I have been living in London for exactly one month and the experience it has been. Filled with delicious pastries, local market discoveries, late night adventures and embarrassing stories resulting from confusion around the difference between black or white coffee, I like to think my time in London, so far has been well spent. However, reflecting upon some of my favorite experiences and sights I’ve seen I’ve begun to see a reoccurring theme. I frequent Hyde…

upheaval in Britain. There were new clothes, new music, new breeds of dogs, and most importantly, new forms of punishment for crimes. This cultural metamorphosis was mostly harmless, but it also gave birth to some horrific crimes as well. This fact is what makes those punishments so important. As evils both great and small were rising up, there had to be punishments to meet them at the pass. The Victorian era implemented punishments that not only benefitted London, but would be very influential…

Mr.Mopes is a hermit defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary as, “any person living in solitude or seeking to do so.” (Abate & Jewell, 2001) At a deeper depth we can see reasoning as to why Charles Dickens titled his short story the way he did. The first paragraph of the story reads…

When it comes to policing, many problems are still occur that were prevalent when policing first began. The Metropolitan Police Act settled the first organized police force in London. This act was introduced by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Members of this organization would replace watchmen and parish constables. Officers, also known as members of this police force were called “bobbies”, which came after the creator. This organization was led by two magistrates and later on were given the title,…

industrialization of London took place during that time as well, there were a lot of people losing their jobs and as a result of that it created a lot of financial instability. Families were forced to send their children to work, at the time this was a normal thing to do. Child labor was normal back then, if your family couldn’t afford to send you to school you were sent to work. The Victorian Era was a time of growth and change. People were coming up with all kinds of inventions, from light…

My object is found at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England, filed under no. T. 113-1964. It is from the 19th century to early 20th century, around the 1800s, and is made for a woman. It is a deep purple color, and is made of satin. It is a dress of the Victorian age, one of the many styles that went in and out of fad during that time. This particular dress was a style going on during 1860s-1890, at the beginning of the time the fullness of the very large crinoline, a stiffened…