‘I think London, though charming, a most illogical city. I don’t know its boundaries: you don’t; nobody does…’1 I imagine that most people researching London’s history have probably, at some point, asked the question: what is, or was, London, anyway? The quotation above, taken from an article written by the humorist Stephen Leacock in 1925, points to the difficulty, or… Continue Reading
