The Tower of London: Millennia of History

The site on which the Tower of London now stands is truly historic... over the next 25-ish minutes I plan to provide a "whistle-stop tour" of around than 2000 years of that history!

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [   • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyrig...  ]


Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Google map showing the Tower of London: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tow...

Collected artworks by Ivan Lapper (including the examples shown in this video), hosted at https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/s...

Mike Calder, image of Civitas Londinium, Agas' Map of London, c. 1570-1605. From “Maps of Old London”, London, Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Scanned & corrected Mike Calder.

Image from the Bayeux Tapestry showing William with his half-brothers. William is in the centre, Odo is on the left with empty hands, and Robert is on the right with a sword in his hand (12th century). Held by the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux.

Photograph of St John's Chapel inside the White Tower at the Tower of London, England, taken by Bernard Gagnon (2007).

Photograph of the reconstitution of Edward I of England’s apartments at the Tower of London, taken by Bernard Gagnon (2007).

Photograph of one of the 13 sculptures of Royal Beasts made by Kendra Haste (2011). Patrick Davies Contemporary Art (Sculptor, Kendra Haste; Photographer, Patrick Davies)