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Pollution of the Thames and advises in oder to reduce it.
Pollution of the River Thames has been and remains one of the biggest and most discussed problems for London and its ecosystem ... considerably since the 19th century, when Thames was heavily ...
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How London became the center of the world
Air pollution is ... new residents an hour to London’s nine. But that’s still about 70,000 annually—the growth that Khan’s London Plan anticipates through mid-century.
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Mask force: London's five centuries of face coverings
From the Black Death to the suffocating smog, traffic pollution to the threat ... Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century helped create the infamous London smog, which escalated as more and ...
'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings
A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...
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London’s Big Dig Reveals Amazing Layers of History
In a brightly lit laboratory above the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), conservator Luisa Duarte is gently cleaning a large first-century fresco ... in the 16th and 17th centuries, when ...
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Gardens regained: exhibition unearths past places of pleasure
Lost Gardens of London at the Garden Museum reveals sites both public and private, planted and constructed, formal and wild ...
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Replica 17th century ship to dock in London
Tower Bridge will be opened to let the 500-ton ship pass through A full-sized replica of a 17th-century Spanish merchant ship is due to arrive in London. Tower Bridge will be opened to let the 500 ...
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Replica 17th century merchant ship docks in Thames
A full-sized replica of a 17th century Spanish armed merchant ship has arrived in London. Tower Bridge opened to let the 500-tonne El Galeon Andalucía pass through ahead of its arrival at St ...
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Minute marvels: Rare, tiny 17th-century decorative paper-cuttings go on display in London
The East London neighbourhood of Hackney may be known ... The latest string to be added to the area’s artistic bow is a set of 17th-century decorative paper-cuttings. The rare examples of ...
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Cricket in the 17th and 18th centuries
This, at the end of the eighteenth century, where our story ends ... and an American visitor to London in 1810 was struck by the difference between "their (i.e., English) cricket and ours ...
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London Review of Books
Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947 ... more of BP in Azerbaijan Peter Geoghegan Shah S ulaiman, the 17th-century Safavid ...
Replica 17th century warship to dock in London
A full-sized replica of a 17th-century Spanish warship is due to arrive in London. Tower Bridge will be opened to let the 500-ton Galeon Andalucia pass through, before it arrives at St Katherine ...