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Apocalypse Then: How The Victorians Imagined London's Doom

Apocalypse Then: How The Victorians Imagined London's Doom

Continuing our Past Futures series, on how Londoners of yesteryear imagined the future.

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John Martin’s “The Last Man”. Image public domain

London has been destroyed many times, both in reality and in fiction. Our predecessors lived through great famines, fires, plagues and bombardments; from the Boudican revolt to the Blitz. Fictional Londoners have had to deal with an even wider range of existential threats, including nuclear strikes, alien…

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