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19th-century London

Index 19th-century London

This article covers the 19th century history of London, during which it grew enormously to become a global city of immense importance, and the capital of the British Empire, fed by immigrants from the colonies and refugees from various conflicts and famines. [1]

82 relations: Augustus Charles Pugin, Belgravia, Big Ben, British Asian, British Empire, Charing Cross Road, Charles Dickens, Chinese people, City of London, Civil engineering, Clerkenwell Road, Coghlan's Guides, County of London, Edward Mogg, Euston railway station, Fenchurch Street railway station, Finsbury, Great Famine (Ireland), Great Stink, Greenwich, Henry Mayhew, Holborn, Irish people, Islington, James Elmes, Jews, John Feltham, Joseph Bazalgette, Joseph Nightingale, Lambeth, Local government, London, London and Greenwich Railway, London Bridge station, London County Council, London King's Cross railway station, London Labour and the London Poor, London Paddington station, London sewerage system, London Underground, London Waterloo station, Metropolitan Board of Works, Metropolitan borough, Metropolitan Police Service, New York City, Oliver Twist, Paddington, Palace of Westminster, Paris, Parish, ..., Penny Cyclopaedia, Peter Cunningham (British writer), Rail transport, Rees's Cyclopædia, River Thames, Robert Peel, Royal Albert Hall, Rudolph Ackermann, Samuel Leigh (bookseller), Sanitary sewer, Sewage, Shoreditch, Slum, Southwark, St Pancras railway station, Stanford's Guides, Suburb, Thames Embankment, The Beauties of England and Wales, The Crystal Palace, The Great Exhibition, Theobald's Road, Thomas Allen (topographer), Thomas H. Shepherd, Thomas Rowlandson, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, Vestry, Victoria and Albert Museum, Victorian era, W. J. Loftie, 19th century. Expand index (32 more) »

Augustus Charles Pugin

Augustus Charles Pugin, born Auguste-Charles Pugin, (1762–1832) was an Anglo-French artist, architectural draughtsman, and writer on medieval architecture.

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Belgravia

Belgravia is an affluent district in West London, shared within the authorities of both the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Big Ben

Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London and is usually extended to refer to both the clock and the clock tower.

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British Asian

British Asians (also referred as South Asians in the United Kingdom, Asian British people or Asian Britons) are persons of South Asian descent who reside in the United Kingdom.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Charing Cross Road

Charing Cross Road is a street in central London running immediately north of St Martin-in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus (the intersection with Oxford Street) and then becomes Tottenham Court Road.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Chinese people

Chinese people are the various individuals or ethnic groups associated with China, usually through ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship or other affiliation.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, and railways.

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Clerkenwell Road

Clerkenwell Road is a street in London.

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Coghlan's Guides

Coghlan's Guides were a series of travel guide books to Europe written by Francis Coghlan in the mid-19th century.

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County of London

The County of London was a county of England from 1889 to 1965, corresponding to the area known today as Inner London.

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Edward Mogg

Edward Mogg was a publisher in London in the 19th century.

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Euston railway station

Euston railway station (also known as London Euston) is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden, managed by Network Rail.

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Fenchurch Street railway station

Fenchurch Street railway station, also known as London Fenchurch Street, is a central London railway terminus in the southeastern corner of the City of London.

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Finsbury

Finsbury is a district of Central London, England.

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine (an Gorta Mór) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849.

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Great Stink

The Great Stink was an event in central London in July and August 1858 during which the hot weather exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent that was present on the banks of the River Thames.

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Greenwich

Greenwich is an area of south east London, England, located east-southeast of Charing Cross.

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Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was an English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform.

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Holborn

Holborn is a district in the London boroughs of Camden and City of Westminster and a locality in the ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Islington

Islington is a district in Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.

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James Elmes

James Elmes (15 October 1782, London – 2 April 1862, Greenwich) was an English architect, civil engineer, and writer on the arts.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John Feltham

John Feltham (fl. 1780–1803) was an English writer, particularly for travel and antiquarian works.

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Joseph Bazalgette

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, CB (28 March 181915 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer.

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Joseph Nightingale

Joseph Nightingale (26 October 1775 – 9 August 1824) was a prolific English writer and preacher.

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Lambeth

Lambeth is a district in Central London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Local government

A local government is a form of public administration which, in a majority of contexts, exists as the lowest tier of administration within a given state.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London and Greenwich Railway

The London and Greenwich Railway (L&GR) was opened in London between 1836 and 1838.

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London Bridge station

London Bridge is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Southwark, south-east London.

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London County Council

London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected.

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London King's Cross railway station

King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a Central London railway terminus on the northern edge of the city.

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London Labour and the London Poor

London Labour and the London Poor is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew.

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London Paddington station

Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.

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London sewerage system

The London sewerage system is part of the water infrastructure serving London, England.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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London Waterloo station

Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, located in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Metropolitan Board of Works

The Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) was the principal instrument of London-wide government from December 1855 until the establishment of the London County Council in March 1889.

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Metropolitan borough

A metropolitan borough is a type of local government district in England, and is a subdivision of a metropolitan county.

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39.

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Paddington

Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in central London.

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Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Penny Cyclopaedia

The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was a multi-volume encyclopedia edited by George Long and published by Charles Knight alongside the Penny Magazine.

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Peter Cunningham (British writer)

Peter Nicolas Cunningham FSA (1816–1869) was a British writer born in London, son of the Scottish author Allan Cunningham and his wife Jean (née Walker, 1791–1866).

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Rees's Cyclopædia

Rees's Cyclopædia, in full The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature was an important 19th-century British encyclopædia edited by Rev.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, (5 February 17882 July 1850) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–35 and 1841–46) and twice as Home Secretary (1822–27 and 1828–30).

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Rudolph Ackermann

Rudolph Ackermann (20 April 1764 in Schneeberg, Electorate of Saxony – 30 March 1834 in Finchley, London) was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman.

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Samuel Leigh (bookseller)

Samuel Leigh was a bookseller and publisher in 19th century London.

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Sanitary sewer

A sanitary sewer or "foul sewer" is an underground carriage system specifically for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings through pipes to treatment facilities or disposal.

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Sewage

Sewage (or domestic wastewater or municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced from a community of people.

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Shoreditch

Shoreditch is a district and Church of England parish in the borough of Hackney in Greater London, England and is part of both Central London and the East End.

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Slum

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons.

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Southwark

Southwark is a district of Central London and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

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St Pancras railway station

St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and officially since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus located on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.

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Stanford's Guides

Stanford's Guides (est. 1850s) were a series of travel guide books to England and elsewhere published by Edward Stanford of London.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Thames Embankment

The Thames Embankment is a work of 19th-century civil engineering that reclaimed marshy land next to the River Thames in central London.

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The Beauties of England and Wales

The Beauties of England and Wales (1801–1815) is a series of books describing the topography and local history of England and Wales.

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The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and plate-glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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The Great Exhibition

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations or The Great Exhibition, sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held, was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.

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Theobald's Road

Theobalds Road is a road in the Holborn district of London.

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Thomas Allen (topographer)

Thomas Allen (1803–1833) was an English topographer.

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Thomas H. Shepherd

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1792–1864) was a topographical watercolour artist well known for his architectural paintings.

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Thomas Rowlandson

Thomas Rowlandson (13 July 1756 – 21 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation.

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Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London built between 1886 and 1894.

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Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.

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Vestry

A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government for a parish in England and Wales, which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquially as the "vestry".

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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W. J. Loftie

William John Loftie (25 July 1839, Tandragee, County Armagh, Northern Ireland – 16 June 1911) was a British clergyman and writer, on the history of London, travel, art and architecture.

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19th century

The 19th century was a century that began on January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th-century_London

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