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Before London was London

From the arrival of the Romans to the decline of their empire

Six hundred years that stretch from the Romans to the Norman conquest of Britain

London in the Middle Ages

The Tudor family’s kings and queens ruled England for over 100 years

A period defined by Queen Elizabeth I, the longest-ruling Tudor monarch

London under King James I

After the Tudors came the Stuarts, including James I, James II, Charles I and Charles II

Life in Georgian London, when Britain was ruled by four kings named George

Spanning the reigns of five kings from the House of Hanover, a British royal house with German origins

The era-defining rule of Queen Victoria

A century of enormous and rapid change

From the new millennium to the present day