View from The Shard guide for US visitors: how to book, the best time to go, what you can see from the top and how to reach London Bridge station.
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Sir Horace Jones built Smithfield’s iron market in 1868. Explore its fairs, Dickens scenes and railway below the floor, then get weekly London history free.
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 filled a glass palace in Hyde Park and paid for London’s museum district. Follow the route, then trace your own family. Subscribe free.
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Tate Modern London guide for US visitors: free entry, the Turbine Hall, the viewing level, how to get there and what to see nearby on the South Bank.
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Canary Wharf London guide for US visitors: docks history, free-to-walk dock basins, the Docklands museum, and easy Tube, DLR and boat routes.
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Cream terraces, leafy squares and a distant skyline: explore London’s prettiest neighbourhoods, what living there is like, and how to choose yours.
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Burlington Arcade London opened in 1819 in Mayfair. See its glass roof, top-hatted beadles and old rules, plus how to visit. Join our free newsletter.
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Discover how London evacuated its children in 1939 and how to trace an evacuee ancestor using the 1939 Register and London archives. Free weekly heritage stories.
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