Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
[1] [2] [3] The culture of London concerns the music, museums, festivals, and lifestyle within London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. London is one of the world's leading business centres, renowned for its technological readiness and economic clout, as well as attracting the most foreign investment of any global city.
[7] 90% of Londoners died before the age of 45, although wealthier people were more likely to live to 70 or 80. [8] On average, London men grew to a height of 5'7½" (172cm) and London women to 5'3" (160 cm). [9] London was a centre of England's Jewish population.
Londoners saw widespread violence during upheavals such as the Gordon Riots. Many modern-day cultural institutions come from 18th century London, such as the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Academy, the British Museum, the Royal Thames Yacht Club, Lord's Cricket Ground, The Times, The Observer, Theatre Royal Haymarket, and the Royal Opera House.
Health, Culture and Society (2013) 4#1 pp: 91–104. Field, Jacob F. London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery (2018) Fowler, James. London Transport: A Hybrid in History 1905-48 (Emerald Group Publishing, 2019). Hanlon, W. Walker. Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century (UCLA and NBER, 2015) online; Jackson, Lee.
A distinctive middle class lifestyle developed which influenced what was valued by society as a whole. Increased importance was placed on the value of the family and a private home. Women had limited legal rights in most areas of life and were expected to focus on domestic matters relying on men as breadwinners. Whilst parental authority was ...
When Prince William enrolled at Eton College in 1995, he became the first senior royal to enroll in the school in Berkshire, England. His father, Prince Charles, and grandfather, Prince Philip ...
Williams argues that the notion of culture developed in response to the Industrial Revolution and the social and political changes it brought in its wake. [1] This is done through a series of studies of famous British writers and essayists, including Edmund Burke, William Cobbett, William Blake, William Wordsworth, F. R. Leavis, George Orwell, and Christopher Caudwell.
As of June 2007, the Black population of London was 802,300, equivalent to 10.6% of the population of London; 4.3% of Londoners are Caribbean, 5.5% of Londoners are African and a further 0.8% are from other black backgrounds including American and Latin American. There are also 117,400 people who are mixed black and white. [28]