The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display
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#2From the King that brought you the Harrying of the North comes a contract to treat London nice…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North
Although I guess they didn’t agree.
Also I’ve never heard of a Portreeve before, I’m guessing they’re a Shirereeve for a port.
Re: The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display
#3From the King that brought you the Harrying of the North comes a contract to treat London nice… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North Although I guess they didn’t agree. Also I’ve never heard of a Portreeve before, I’m guessing they’re a Shirereeve for a port.
Portreeve:
Re: The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display
#4For those that don’t know, the City of London is the ancient Roman core of Metropolitan London.
It has its own separate police force, distinct from the Metropolitan Police that looks after the rest of London.
The City is also governed differently to the rest of England. I’m guessing this document is probably part of the reason why.
It’s the only place in the UK that’s not run on the basis of 1 person 1 vote. Instead it’s run by the City of London Corporation. It’s a city state within a city run as a corporation.
It’s ancient science fiction and weird as fuck. :P
Re: The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display
#5For those that don’t know, the City of London is the ancient Roman core of Metropolitan London. It has its own separate police force, distinct from the Metropolitan Police that looks after the rest of London. The City is also governed differently to the rest of England. I’m guessing this document is probably part of the reason why. It’s the only place in the UK that’s not run on the basis of 1 person 1 vote. Instead…
Video by CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
Re: The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display
#6For those that don’t know, the City of London is the ancient Roman core of Metropolitan London. It has its own separate police force, distinct from the Metropolitan Police that looks after the rest of London. The City is also governed differently to the rest of England. I’m guessing this document is probably part of the reason why. It’s the only place in the UK that’s not run on the basis of 1 person 1 vote. Instead…
To add a little colour to this. The resident population of the city is less than 10k - I’d guess around 3-4k in one development the Barbican Centre - but 500k work there. 10k is about one tenth of the population per Member of Parliament in the U.K.
The City of London Police number just over 800.
So the demographics for a ‘city’ are very odd too.
Re: The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display
#7For those that don’t know, the City of London is the ancient Roman core of Metropolitan London. It has its own separate police force, distinct from the Metropolitan Police that looks after the rest of London. The City is also governed differently to the rest of England. I’m guessing this document is probably part of the reason why. It’s the only place in the UK that’s not run on the basis of 1 person 1 vote. Instead…
To add a little colour to this. The resident population of the city is less than 10k - I’d guess around 3-4k in one development the Barbican Centre - but 500k work there. 10k is about one tenth of the population per Member of Parliament in the U.K. The City of London Police number just over 800. So the demographics for a ‘city’ are very odd too.
Its between 8/9k pop. The ward in which i live has fewer than 400 voters
> 10k is about one tenth of the population per Member of Parliament in the U.K.
City of London shares a constituency with Westminster "Two Cities"
Re: The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display
#8From the King that brought you the Harrying of the North comes a contract to treat London nice… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North Although I guess they didn’t agree. Also I’ve never heard of a Portreeve before, I’m guessing they’re a Shirereeve for a port.
Not the last time we were sold out by London.
Re: The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display
#9From the King that brought you the Harrying of the North comes a contract to treat London nice… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North Although I guess they didn’t agree. Also I’ve never heard of a Portreeve before, I’m guessing they’re a Shirereeve for a port.
> From the King that brought you the Harrying of the North comes a contract to treat London nice…
Your own link points out that he tried paying the northerners off first.
Re: The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display
#10For those that don’t know, the City of London is the ancient Roman core of Metropolitan London. It has its own separate police force, distinct from the Metropolitan Police that looks after the rest of London. The City is also governed differently to the rest of England. I’m guessing this document is probably part of the reason why. It’s the only place in the UK that’s not run on the basis of 1 person 1 vote. Instead…
Video by CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
Can't recommend this enough. It captures how truly historically unique this place is.