The Origins of London
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Time Lines
The area of what is now london before the roman conquest was a farmed, rural landscape with a big river. It only becomes a place where you want a city when you can cross the river and when you can unite what were previously competing territories into a single country as it were. Rome, by conquering britain, makes london suddenly in the middle of things rather thon the edges of things. But over the years, some earlier things have begun to emerge. And piecing them together now, does it look as if there might be something underneath the city of the fifties and sixties? We've got an out sits that could be three or four thousand years
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