The Stuart period in London began with the reign of James VI and I in 1603 and ended with the death of Queen Anne in 1714. London grew massively in population...
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John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart (31 December 1720 – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart making him the grandson of James...
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Stuart Times (1959). Michael Berlin, "Civic ceremony in early modern London". Urban History 13 (1986): 15–27. "Civic ceremony in early modern London"...
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National Portrait Gallery in London, Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Stuart was born on December 3, 1755...
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districts: the 32 London boroughs, which form a ceremonial county also called Greater London, and the City of London. The Greater London Authority is responsible...
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"London Bridge" refers to several historic crossings that have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London since...
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history of London lasted from the 7th to the 11th centuries. Romano-British Londinium had been abandoned in the late 5th century, although the London Wall remained...
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Stuart Townsend (born 15 December 1972) is an Irish actor. He portrayed Lestat de Lioncourt in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned (2002)...
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The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the...
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The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, in December 1952. A period of unusually...
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Empire (CBE) in 2022 for services to media. Moira Stuart was born at the Royal Free Hospital in London, on 2 September 1949, to Caribbean parents. She has...
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During the 19th century, London grew enormously to become a global city of immense importance. It was the largest city in the world from about 1825, the...
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James Stuart Hall Jr. (born 25 December 1929) is an English former media personality and convicted sex offender. He presented regional news programmes...
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Mary, Queen of Scots (redirect from Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots)
Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until...
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London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 8,866,180 in 2022. The wider metropolitan area is the...
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Stuart, styled Duchess of Albany (29 October 1753 – 17 November 1789) was the illegitimate daughter of the Jacobite pretender Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie...
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The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London, England, and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor...
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Anish Kapoor (born Stuart Buchanan Semple, 12 September 1980) is a British artist and activist who works with sculpture and painting. Semple was born in...
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Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart (French: Louise Marie Thérèse; 28 June 1692 – 18 April 1712), known to Jacobites as The Princess Royal, was the last child of...
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The House of Stuart, originally spelled Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain. The family name comes from the...
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The London sewer system is part of the water infrastructure serving London, England. The modern system was developed during the late 19th century, and...
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Werewolf of London is a 1935 horror film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Henry Hull as the titular werewolf. The supporting cast includes Warner...
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Stuart: A Life Backwards is a biography by Alexander Masters of his friend Stuart Clive Shorter, formerly, at various times, a prisoner and a career criminal...
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The City of London Police is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the City of London, England, including the Middle and...
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Guildhall is a municipal building in the Moorgate area of the City of London, England. It is off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw...
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The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the most recent major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within...
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captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London, where she died at age 39. She was the only child of Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox (of the third creation)...
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Swinging Sixties (redirect from London in the 1960s)
mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising modernity and fun-loving hedonism, with Swinging London denoted as its centre. It saw a flourishing in art, music and fashion, and...
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Concert of Cool Rider (the Greasiest Sequel) at the London Palladium, this time assuming the role of Mr Stuart and taking on the song 'Reproduction'. Caulfield...
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Stuart Henry McPhail Hall FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist...
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