The Growth of London: Every Year
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2021
- The growth of London from its origins as a Roman town, to the modern megacity of today.
* = Until the late 19th century, the boundaries shown are the 'Parishes', the smallest unit of government in England. From 1894 these were gradually replaced by council districts.
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So as you may have guessed, this look a lot longer than expected (I've been working on it since early November last year). I may do more city videos in future (New York is likely to be the next one), but if I do I'll treat it as a long-term project and upload smaller videos in between. Thanks for watching!
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It would be great to see some other cities
It's awesome, keep doing what you're doing I love your maps!
Lol
Awesome! Yes, please do other cities.
_industrial revolution starts_
London to the surrounding countryside: *om nom nom*
That might have more to do with railways.
The industrial revolution was 100 years before that.
It wasn't to do with the industrial revolution, by 1863 the country had already become industrialised but the central areas of London were extremely overcrowded. The urban expansion was more to do with railways being extended to outer areas of London and people finding it more comfortable to settle in the suburbs.
V interesting!! it took alot longer for London to grow than many people assume, but it really took off after about 1890.
So it passed the 100,000 mark during the reign of Elizabeth I, saw 500,000 around 1680 and made it to a Million by 1810.
@@WhitehornMichael the industrial revolution wasn’t one distinct moment
PHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAR!!!!!!!!!!!
map men
that is many exclamations
Only 2 likes?
Better see a unfinish map london men soon
The man himself, jay.
I have no meme to think of, so I honestly just wanted to say that your maps are awesome and you somehow always nail new topics.
Well said.
fuck memes
i dont like london
@@destroyedtelephone4124 k
You have an anime as your pfp
Your opinion is invalid
Industrialisation: *happens*
Green colors: *may we introduce ourselves*
When Weltreich?
Hey! Good to see you here! Love your vids!
@Crusader Knightz 393 It is not the industry itself that is causing environmental problems, but the mode of producing.
Industry on itself lifted humanity to a much higher stage of Historical development, and we can get even higher, only if the producers owned the means of production.
@Crusader Knightz 393 No actually life and living conditions were much worse before the industrial revolution
@Crusader Knightz 393 life was much worse before then..
The colour scheme is light and hence looks fresh and much more attractive to watch, well done!
RIP Middlesex gone but not forgotten.
RIP old Surrey
Yeah I was wondering that, as someone from Middlesex, what the hell happened to it?
@@syrus3657 Central government brought in reforms in the 60s that abolished it when they created the bloated monster that is Greater London.
@@syrus3657I was born there too! Unfortunately, along with the county of London, it ceased to exist in an administrative sense in 1965 when Greater London was created and the boundaries were rearranged. Most of it was incorporated into Greater London but some ended up as parts of Surrey, Hertfordshire and Berkshire.
Don't worry though because there are still 5 Middlesex counties in America! The middle saxons live on 🎷
miss ya big man
To anyone who thinks this is over generalised work. It's really isnt. It's highly detailed. I know the history of my area and the land and I saw it develop exactly the way it should have. Well done
Yeah this was much, much better than expected. The only thing that could have made it even better would be to have separated the 20th century into Edwardian, Interwar and Postwar development, but this video blew my mind nonetheless
you must be very very old to have seen all that development !
@@stewartlancaster6155 I'm a vampire 🧛♂️ In all seriousness though the land registry and old parish maps collate exactly to this timelined video. The level of research every few seconds of screentime is insane as you would think someone on CZcams would generalise the data or simplify it but its just not
Lol so you have been around since 400
Damn... the plague and the War of the Roses sure hit hard
WW2 also
I noticed that population drop too
Ikr London lost half of its population from the plague and it slowly recovered and then it got it hard again and for like 20 years the population wasn’t growing until the 1400s and from the war of the roses it lost half of its population again. And also when London was part of the Roman Empire they pretty much lost all of there population from the bubonic plague
There were a couple of plague waves, plus WotRs
If my parents had moved to London in the early 1970s when house prices were low and the population down to 7.5 million they would have become property millionaires.
@The Truth. My parents sold their house in East Barnet for £21,000 in 1978 and moved to a cheaper house in Suffolk to raise money for their retirement. Meanwhile, a friend who still lived in the same street until recently told me the people who bought the house from my parents sold it a couple of years ago for £500,000 !
@@Derek_S yes but £21,000 was a lot of money in 1978.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 Not really as the income back then was also 21000 ish in the uk on avg
@@SM-ly5tf Average real income in 1978 was just under £7k.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 damnn my granpa at the time was making bank then
I found this when I was searching for any sort of guidance as to how big London was in Jane Austen’s time; (I'm doing Pride and Prejudice as part of a senior English course, and am a New Zealander who’s not yet had the pleasure of visiting London or the UK or Ireland.) I'm flabbergasted by how rapidly London grew after Austen’s time, especially during the Victorian era. Jane Austen wouldn't have recognised Victorian London. Thank you so much for making this. It's improved my understanding of London considerably. ❤
Ollie, I've known your channel since the first year you've been making videos. I'll be honest, I was a little dismissive of your videos early on, like that they were cute but not particularly informative or containing much historical value beyond painting a map. Now, seeing how far you've come and how much amazing detail you can find and put into your videos you've proves me wrong in so many ways and I couldn't be happier. Thanks for keeping on doing what you love, putting as much work and research into your projects as you do and continuing to teach your audience. This video sets a new standard for what we can expect from these kinds of videos, and I'm looking forward to seeing what amazing work you can put out next.
Last time I was this early. Ollie had finished his 1st 'History of the World'
So basically
London never changed it's borders and London begun to grow around London and made London into the biggest city in the world while London becomes the City of London within London but is actually the London London from the days London was founded
London was never conquered by the Normans which is why the tower of London exists. The Normans built 2 other castles to surround London. Also the city of London has it's own police force, separate to the metropolitan police which covers the surrounding area.
@@skylarius3757 That's a bit of a misleading distinction. London was never conquered through the means of a siege, no. But that's because ultimately it didn't need to be because it almost immediately submitted to Norman rule and was assimilated into Norman society. The castles outside London were not because it was independent, they were to guard against uprising, just as castles were used similarly throughout William's kingdom. The fact that William was able to build the Tower immediately outside the Roman walls was because it had submitted; that task would be somewhat more difficult if the citizens were resisting. The positioning of the Tower, overlooking the old city, was one of domination.
William recognised London's special rights and privileges through London's 1067 charter, but just because it had special rights doesn't mean that it wasn't within his kingdom. In fact it proves that it was - how can William issue a charter for a city if he doesn't rule it? After a fire in 1077, in which the original Tower was destroyed, William decreed that all fires in the City must be extinguished at night. Despite this, another fire in 1087 destroyed St Paul's, which was immediately rebuilt by William. Again, how was William rebuilding structures in the middle of a city he didn't rule? The Bishops of London, based at St Paul's (Hugh d'Orevalle, Maurice, Richard de Beaumis, Gilbert Universalis), were all Norman appointments. Again, how?
London
Maybe the real Londons were the friends we made along the way.
Did you just use London 10 times in one sentence?
Amazing how much London has spread. Seemed so large during the Victorian era but now that size looks small.
I was in London in October 2015 and explored a bit of the countryside as well. Would really love to go back again
as i'm a brit, i've took a train to london a few times, i've seen buckingham palace, elizabeth tower, and grenfell tower, which got covered up after the fire. last time i went there was in july 2019
I live close to London, and avoid it as much as I can.
It is too crowded and expensive.
Most times I go there is to get a train to other places.
@@rafaelcosta3238 It's not that crowded compared to other big cities especially the ones in India
Thing is most of the population is in the area built before 1900 it’s just surrounded by low density suburbs that take up way more space
@@joachimmacdonald2702 yup, that's bad
Fun fact - when you see "London" on the motorway telling you how many miles it is till you get there, its actually measuring how long it is to Charing cross. And it measures it there because some royal used to receive messengers at Charing cross from across the realm and is thus considered the place where London meets the outside world.
"You're not useless"
Me: British Isles ranking for london
I mean, at the start it wasn't 1st :P
@@xander1052 Winchester go brrr
@@NeongenesisXp More so cirencester as that was the original centre of Roman Britain
@@xander1052 Colchester you mean.
@@thomasrinschler6783 it was one of the two
Needs a scale for size visualization, otherwise wow incredible project! Well done
Just remember that the City of London is 2.90 km2 (1.12 sq mi)
the greater lonon ara is about 50km wide end to end
@@sssddfsafsda494 Area*
Really liked the incredible graphics and animations, Its crazy to see how much London has grown since Roman Times. Great Job, Keep up the good work!
Last time I was this early, londinium still existed. Also amazing job, ollie, starting off the year well
Absolutely incredible video! Thanks so much for the effort in creating it - so interesting to see the expansion of my hometown over 2,000 years!
The fact you managed to find all the data is incredible!
Industrial Age: **Occurs**
London to the Countryside: *Hippity hoppity this is now my property*
All farmers lost their jobs lol
@Alfie Green Yeah and those open areas r just Parks
@Alfie Green They are. I can recognise a few of them. Some are private property but the majority are Parklands
@Alfie Green If you live in London you can at least recognise those places
@@arolemaprarath6615 ??
Happy New Years Ollie. Glad to see you back!
Me too, tou're my favourite map youtuber! :)
broo, the ammount of details and so good editing, this is beyond perfect
And the Lord said ”Let this become a new series”, and it was so, and God saw that it was good (and he pressed like).
This is awesome ! This is already my favourite video of all the ones you have made (and I really like A LOT of your maps), this map is looking so neat and full ! You've been making maps videos for years but still impress me, CONGRATULATIONS !
If I may suggest some other cities's growth for future videos : New York City, Roma, Paris and Istanbul/Constantinople.
Brilliant and fascinating piece of work. One of the best things on YT I've seen in a long time. Thanks so much.
Amazing video and really well produced. Bravo.
Loved working out the rough maths of the expansion - but was really interesting to see the population only passed half a million around 1680, but it's grown 20x that in the past 350 years.
Loved the detail, especially little things like the evolution of Heathrow in the past 60 years which I found fascinating!
I really appreciate the hard work you put into this. Amazing job!
I see why this project took you so long. This is really good. Great work!
Eltham has Victorian buildings as does Beckenham, yet they show as uninhabited during the Victorian era on here. But generally pretty absorbing graphics that tell the story well.
Tfw London had a population in roman times that they didn't reach again until the 14th century. Roman times were truly the greatest
And the population of rome only recovered its imperial period numbers in the industrial revolution😳
@@Fred_the_1996 Shut up. Life in Rome wasn't good for 99% of people.
@@timothymatthews6458 ? What I said had nothing to do with the quality of life, ofc 19th century life was a lot better than roman life lmao. Still, the quality of life must've been way better in ancient rome than in the early middle ages
@VINNIE Abcde I hate the french and english. So no thanks.
@@y.r._ You hate the French and the English because you're jealous that those two countries had the biggest empires in history and were very powerful and are still very powerful today
I have no idea how you put this together but it seems like the amount of work/ research involved must have been a lot - great video thanks!
Ollie - this is absolutely fascinating. Thanks for putting this on youtube.
Welcome back !
I really like this style of Animation and the new topic!
Also join his discord
I literally forgot about this channel. Great to see you back ollie
Ollie this was beautiful and would love to see you continue it with other cities!
"Ey wanna take the london look Ol' Champ"
**Literally nobody in the 500**
It's meant to be chap not champ
suggestion:
The Growth of Paris: Every Year
The Growth of Berlin: Every Year
The Growth of Rome: Every Year
The Growth of Istanbul: Every Year
The Growth of Saint Petersburg: Every Year
The growth of Rome would be very interesting, considering how it's expanded and contracted over the millennia.
Only cause I'm Canadian, the growth of Toronto every month lol
Konstantinopoli*
@@Lazar620 *Istanbul. Its been officially called Istanbul since the 1920s
@@solfennell8981 no turkish mud on greek land
Great work, I love all the info on the side, it makes it easy to follow.
Happy new year Ollie! Welcome back! You are the best!
Out of 2000 years of history, London saw the most exponential growth in one century.
Thats what expolential growth is. In 1000 years it doubles, from tiny to small then 500 years from small to less small then 250 to sizable then 120 to giant and 60 to... green belt and basically the same.
This is a step forwards in mapping, amazing video.
Happy New Year Ollie. Always love and appreciate your videos
Wow. I really liked how you put all your effort in this, I really appreciate your hard work on this masterpiece. And also the video is really great.
The year is 3000 AD and London has consumed the world.
Ollie, love your videos. Can you do one for the growth of Tokyo? We always see the west, never the east.
LOVE your channel. Keep up the amazing work :)
Excellent video happy to see you back
These city growths are super interesting! Could you do Warsaw or Krakow next?
The coolest mapping of 2021 so far
Such a unique concept for a video. I really enjoyed it!
Fascinating stuff! Very well done.
London, Yorkshire, And Nottinghamshire are some of the nicest looking parts of England
I mean, I think London used to be better
Having lived in London I thought it was the ugliest looking part of England.
in london you cannot find any britons at all, it's like you enter another country
Can you make a growth video of New York City, next?
You must have worked so hard putting this together, but the result is brilliant, well done!
I'm legitimately impressed you took the time to make this.
Hey Ollie! Can you make a video on History of Nepal?
Congratulations for your job. Now, you can do cities like Madrid, Paris or Roma?
@Antonio Ferrara But in medieval age, Roma had decreases and dropouts interesting to see.
Wow. Utterly brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
Incredible! Keep up the good work!
This is INCREDIBLE! How I love my home city, London. Watching this was beautiful. Absolutley insane the growth from the 20's/30's up until WW2. Its nothing less than an explosion.
Everyone's going on about the start of the 1800s, but London almost doubled in size in the 1930s alone!
Well done. I love your mapping videos
This was really interesting, thank you for making this video
Very impressive, please also do one for the other top 10 largest cities in the UK: Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Bristol, Sheffield, and Edinburgh.
Birmingham started existing around 700AD as a Saxon village (named after Beorma) and remained a village until Victorian times. Like London, surrounding villages (e.g. Erdington named after Eordwulf I think?) grew together to form the city.
Chinese cities: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Amazing video! You should make similar ones on other cities or a series of it actually.
Baffling - well done, as usual!
- 200 AD Roman London - Population 64,000 😊
- 1300 AD Medieval London- Population 40,000 😂
It seemed to stop expanding in the final years. I guess it hit the green belt, and started to build high rise instead. It's better to develop some other cities than to keep growing London to eat up the countryside.
This is so cool, thank you for making it.
Such a great Idea and great work ! Would love to see it for other great cities like Prague, Brussel or even Paris !
Remember the outer lying regions had villages and towns that were also growing, it wasn't all just empty land. They just got swallowed up.
A lot of the more recent growth is political geographical changes to boundaries etc. Croydon wasn't classed as part of London even when I was a kid and the map shows Caterham on the southern outskirts. People today wouldn't class that as London.
All that said, a very well made vid.
West Ham
*Best Ham*
AMAZING VIDEO OLLIE!
I was just thinking about you today Ollie. What a pleasant surprise.
I appreciate the effort you put into your videos, and it inspires me to make my own channel about history and specifically about Middle East and North Africa because I love the history for these regions and I'm an Arabian Muslim too! Can you please do a reboot of the tutorial you did 4 years ago? It's really hard, I mean drawing the borders by using the mouse is impossible. I hope there's a new way to do it and more easier. Please make a new tutorial. Thanks and I liked the video!
47 - Londinium
2021 - London
2050 - Londonstan...
Yawn.
Exceptional video ! Congratulations !
Your visualisations of data are truly divine, a real inspiration.
Please do İstanbul as well.
IT'S CALLED BYZANTION
Yes, the might of Constantinople would be awesome to watch!
@@Fred_the_1996 🤦🏼♂️
@@metehankanmaz8805 it was a joke
@@Fred_the_1996 Okay. 😶
I'd love to see one on Amsterdam or Venice, because of the waterways
Venice would be pretty boring after the late 1600s as it basically stayed the same
@@nicolamiceli9097 Unless one went to the Terra Firma of course...
@@scipioafricanus5871 yeah if it was just the city proper
Great video! Very interesting. It must have been hard to get all the population data!
You are INSANELY talented holy shit this is fantastic
"Britannia"
*rule the waves*
Why do you post unfunny try hard comments on every video?
Iberia ruled more because Felipe II shared no ocean with any rival except three seas with Turks (Med. Red & Persian Gulf).
as a Irish guy, I feel offended.
@@galaxyred7 I plan to learn Irish.
@@galaxyred7 what do you feel offended about? Asks a fellow Irish guy
İstanbul PLEASE!
u mean Constantinople ?
@@vattghern257 There is no city called Constantinople. The name of that city is Istanbul. I am from Turkey >:(
@@user-xm5eq5rm9o what else? You will call greek yoghurt, turkish? Ha!
Kappa
@@vattghern257 FATIH SULTAN MEHMET conquered Istanbul in 1453. Now get the f#ck out of here. Istanbul Turkey alanine. The name of that city is ISTANBUL!🖕🤛
@@user-xm5eq5rm9o Ha! go with that weirdo
Awesome video man
Great work as usual
A turtle approved this cool video
good turtle
Thanks turtle
BREAKING NEWS:
*London Annexed England*
*London Annexed the UK*
*London Annexed the world*
*EVERYWHERE IS LONDON*
England is my city - London
What a horrible idea.
Amazing work!
this si really intersting and orderly sad how many views there are seriously it deserves more
London is London no more now
MEDIEVAL TIMES WERE THE BEST
01:39 Black Death has entered the chat
Coming back again to comment on how accurate this map actually is. This isnt just filler he coloured and timed for fun, this is painstaking detail. Amazing work
Cool video man!