The PodGOATs resume their series on famous cities and head to London. It has certainly changed since its humble days as a Roman outpost. Most interesting is the Royal Family traces its lineage to France and their posh way of talking was actually as a result of the Revolutionaly War.
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Selected references:

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• Londinium
   

• River Thames
   

• London in Anglo-Saxon times
   

• Origin of 'London Bridge is Falling Down'
   

• The Norman Conquest
   

• William the Conqueror
   

• London in the Middle Ages
   

• London and the Black Plague
   

• William Shakespeare
   

• The British accent is relatively new
   

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
   

• Big Ben
   

• The history of London's black cabs
   

• Is it illegal to die in Westminster Palace?