This Is 40,000 Years of London’s History—Made Entirely of Paper

40,000 years of London's history - all animated through paper. Fascinating. Great way of teaching history to students. This entire animated video was made out of paper and it was all inspired by the thousands of important archaeological artifacts discovered under the capital during work on the new Crossrail line...

Thousands of artifacts have been unearthed as a result of the construction of the new Crossrail transportation system in London. These paper animations will take you on a journey through the city's history—from the Stone Age to the present day.

National Geographic

Before construction can begin on the new Crossrail station, archaeologists must excavate the 16th-century cemetery that's beneath it. More than 3,300 skeletons, many of whom died from the plague, were exhumed from the old Bedlam cemetery. By taking DNA samples from a plague victim's tooth, scientists are able to study the plague pathogen that caused the death of more than 75,000 people in London and compare it with other samples to see how the disease has evolved over time.

London Fireworks 2016 - New Year's Eve Fireworks (+ 7 more)

We're just loving all these New Year's eve celebrations and fireworks from all over the world, and if we could, we'd add them all - but we can't, so here are just a few...

BBC

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Fireworks erupting over the City Hall in Nathan Philips Square - Downtown Toronto, Canada.

Fahad Nisar Rana

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Jumping off London Tower Bridge GOES WRONG!

Ouch! What a belly flop! This lad has admitted (in this vid and the next), it was the MOST STUPIDEST thing he's ever done and we definitely agree! What started out as a dare for prankster Shah Faisal Shinwari, almost ended in his death...

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Carnage

The making of Star Wars at Madame Tussauds London

Impressive! Madame Tussauds sculptors nailed it again! It took a team of 180 talented Madame Tussauds sculptors, hair artists and colourists one year of hard labour to create this epic Star Wars experience. Chewbacca, for instance, is an entire model of hair which took 10 people totaling 800 hours of work to make Chewbacca look like Chewbacca. Check out more in this great behind-the-scenes video footage...

Madame Tussauds London

Blackout City

Video editor Nicholas Buer used the city of London, and his skills incorporating time lapse images, to take us into a world we rarely never see...

In a metropolis like London light pollution makes the night sky invisible. Only a few of the brightest stars and asterisms force their celestial light through the man made glow of the city. The night sky, one of the most beautiful of natural wonders is extinguished from view. Blackout City is an experimental timelapse film that makes the invisible, visible. It attempts to show what the night sky would look like If there were ever to be a total blackout in the South East of England on a clear, moonless, summers night.

I started shooting this project back in August 2013 and have been slowly gathering footage when conditions were right. Although each shot in this film is a composite, all footage is real.

Epic London Underground Ping Pong Battle

These guys are playing ping pong underground at the Chancery Lane Underground Station in London, and it didn't even involve any ping pong ball at all!  Epic!...

Thomas Ryan

There's a Bit of England in New York, Literally

Tom Scott is back with some more interesting tidbits. Over at Waterside Plaza in Manhattan, New York City, there's a part of  Bristol, a port town in England, which literally makes up the foundation of a development near the East River...

Tom Scott

London Cyclist Stopped by Police! (Funny Stuff!)

Silvio Diego said it was funny but not in the hilariously-funny kind of way, just in a more cute-funny kind of way. Watch this viral vid of under 30 secs to see what we mean...  

Race The Tube - Sprint

Another challenge shows an epic race through the streets of London to beat the Tube, London's rapid transit system, as uploaded by Epic Challenges....

The (Secret) City of London Part 1: History

Very interesting vid for everyone on what we don't know about the "City of London"!









The City of London is not the city named London.