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By: Tom Holland

Tom Holland is an historian, author and broadcaster.

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  • Save Bevis Marks: Skyscraper plans are a menace to the City’s heritage

    The business of London is business. So it has always been. The earliest surviving piece of writing from the city, inscribed on a wooden tablet barely a decade after its foundation by the Romans in AD 43, is an IOU. For two millennia, people have been coming to London to make money. It is the [...]

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