The Five Catastrophes That Made London - Professor Dr Simon Thurley

[@jessicantina]

The pain when you realize 2026 is closer than this lecture is to the time you're watching it. Love your lectures!

[@mustavogaia2655]

WE are closer to 2070 than to 1970.

[@renerpho]

The pain when you realize that we are closer to a coffee being £47 than to solving the housing crisis.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I’m so enjoying these excellent lectures, many thanks to Gresham College and all the first-class experts giving them.

[@ChristopherBowly]

Excellent informative & interesting lecture . Very many thanks.

[@MaverickSeventySeven]

An Excellent Lecture!!!! Engaging, informative and Relevant!!!

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Thank you very much for your lectures- from Sankt Petersbourg, Russia

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[@udeychowdhury2529]

Excellent lecture, thanks!

[@hartmutholzgraefe]

"Every other European city went for single station" ... what about Berlin? It also started out with eight different terminal stations for trains coming from different directions/regions in 1871? The situation changed quickly over the next decade, with the "Ring" and the "Stadtbahn" (crossing the city from west to east) being added to inter connect all of them, but none of them really became the "main station" until 2006 when the north-south tunnel crossing the west-east "Stadtbahn", and the new main station, finally became fully operational.

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Simply brilliant analysis

[@seanoconnor2225]

Fantastic

[@luxushauseragency]

Where can one see a mock up of the 320 blocks due to be built in London?

[@ТатьянаИзмайлова-в4я]

Super!!!

[@moppleinga7025]

wonderful...thank you Dr Simon Thurley! I would LOVE to see a Gresham lecture on the EU referendum before voting ..a really balanced and educational view..far too few people know anything about it and are voting without a clue..especially if they are against immigration. Are there any plans to do this? Iwill share it.

[@GreshamCollege]

Thanks for the links, Bud.

[@moppleinga7025]

Thank you Bud Fields! I have watched them and am most riveted by his exploration on the topic. Much more in depth than the headline-grabber rubbish in the newspapers... I sadly haven't the knowledge or experience to disagree with them, but, also sadly, the most vehement opinions are seemingly misled/false and from people who have not lived through the past decisions. I feel uncomfortable blindly voting which a lot of people seem content to do with only maybe two points of opinion..when in fact there is clearly a lot more involved. Thank you for the link x

[@sian2337]

A lot of assumptions there.

[@WildBillCox13]

One small objection is in matters of scale. I respectfully offer that the Blitz was a pin prick. Thousand plane raids against Berlin, however, were a real disaster.

[@gregmattson2238]

wasn't what I expected. I really expected him to talk about the great stench, and the cholera outbreak.

[@yusetas]

Are you sure that graf is true? 3:03 Millions? population in that time in London 😳

[@nigelholmes9332]

speaker says graph refers to England; maybe add another 500,000 for Wales & Scotland c.1300

[@renerpho]

Very poignant to end on the housing crisis. It has been almost 7 years since this lecture, and if things continue as they are, your proposed 2026 follow-up should be very interesting indeed.

[@ishmael2586]

And with migrants turning up on British shores daily to the tune of thousands per month, demand will only increase

[@joesmith323]

It does rather sound as though the housing crisis in London has the same roots as the housing crises in parts of Canada and the United States - overly restrictive planning and permitting laws. If you allow developers to build, they will build.

[@isbestlizard]

I wish could go back in time and ride on a coal truck and talk to all the people there and hear about their optimism for what's happening, having come out that day to ride it like that. I'd tell them tales of the future and where technology has led and they'd laugh and say I should try writing something like Jules Verne. I'd say I'd probably type it on a keyboard and they wouldn't know what that meant.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

After stealing Catholic Church lands to enrich the rich it took centuries for the riches of London to trickle down to the urban poor but then the entire British Empire grew rich from global exploitation. I wholeheartedly support these superb lecture series. They tell the truth in an unbias way; well done all from here in Chicago.

[@isbestlizard]

I wish I had a mansion on mayfair :/

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Not everything has changed, we women still want to go shopping!

[@koala8313]

the 6th catastrophe was mass 3rd world immigration, which has reduced huge swathes of London to non-English islamic and africanised ghettoes

[@koala8313]

oh wait, that's the 5th catastrophe.

[@koala8313]

haha, the face of the new London, is Chinese funded Chinese-style Marxist inspired communist housing projects.. I've lived in one of these 'future of London' buildings, and guess what, there aren't any English living in them. Mainly Chinese, Arabs, and a variety of 'globalist' financial rootless types.

[@paulgrad5183]

Modern box and block architecture is horrid, and London looks terrible now, indistinguishable from any other major metropolis in the world. Parliament should pass a law that all new construction in England must be in the Gothic style of the 19th Century.

[@stanleyharrison7031]

what about when Boudicca sacked the city?

[@butzee]

The embankments of the Thames from Greenwich to Wandsworth are littered with dreadfully built egg boxes that totally ruin the vista of London! Add to that the proposed sky scraper type housing talked about in this lecture and you can see why I'll be getting out when I can sell my 1901 edwardian flat!

[@c.t5136]

Ahh! Of course: America, once again to thank for appalling architecture for the sake of profit...

[@nathanmoore101]

6.30 nitches? It's pronounced neech