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Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters

Flooded London

Before the Thames Barrier, flooding in London was regularly destructive and often deadly

Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters

The 7/7 London bombings, 2005

On 7 July 2005, 52 people were killed by terrorists targeting London’s transport network

Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters

The medieval graveyard on Newgate Street

How 1970s archaeologists recorded the remains of 234 people buried nearly 1,000 years ago

Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters

A timeline of IRA attacks in London

From the 1970s to the 1990s, Londoners faced the repeated threat of Irish republican bombings