Apocalypse Then: How The Victorians Imagined London's Doom
Continuing our Past Futures series, on how Londoners of yesteryear imagined the future.
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…