City of London
The City of London is where, around 2,000 years ago, the Romans founded the settlement they called Londinium. Surrounded by a wall for centuries, this was the historic city which grew into modern London, and the place marked by fire and plague.
Known as the Square Mile, the City of London has by far the lowest population of all 33 London boroughs, at around 8,000 people. But as a financial centre, home to banks, insurers and law firms, in the daytime that number swells to over 500,000.
An estimated 10 million visitors come each year to see sites like the St Paul’s Cathedral, the Bank of England, the Barbican Centre and, from 2026, London Museum.
There’s history around every corner here. Fleet Street is no longer the home of London’s newspapers. But reporters still gather around the Old Bailey, the City’s historic criminal court.
The Barbican estate is an icon of Brutalist architecture in the City of London.
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A Roman Warrior in his Chariot in Battle (equestrian portrait print)
Park, Archibald Alexander
1837-1850
A Second Holiday for John Gilpin or a Voyage to Vauxhall, 1785 (broadsheet)
Tringham, E.
1785
A short narrative of the late dreadful fire in London (book)
Waterhouse, Edward, Thrale, Rich.
1667
A Showman (Hyde Park Corner) (coloured engraving)
Edwards, Edward, Craig, William Marshall, Phillips, Richard
1804-07-07
A sleeping taxi driver on Lime Street, City of London (pigment print)
Baldesare, Paul
C. 1990
A street scene with St. Mary Aldermary in the distance, Bow Lane (gelatin silver print)
Reid, George Davison
1920-1933
A street seller of sherbert and water, Cheapside (polyester negative)
Martin, Paul Augustus
1893
A True and Exact Prospect of the Famous Citty of London from S. Marie Overs Steeple in Southwarke in its flourishing condition before the fire / Another prospect of the sayd citty taken from the same place as it appeareth now after the sad calamitie and destruction by fire in the year M.DC.LXVI (etching)
Hollar, Wenceslaus
1675
A true Pourtraict with a Brief Description of that deplorable Fire of London Befallen the 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 Sept. 1666 (engraving)
Doornick, Marcus Willemsz
1666-1670
A View of Frost Fair as it appeared on the Ice on the River Thames Feby. 3d 1814 (engraving)
Anonymous, -
1814-03-19
