Cultures of London - Legacies of Migration

From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London-s history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital-s cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by academics, artists, broadcasters and curators. Subjects range from the mediaeval to the contemporary: buildings and institutions, individuals and communities, objects, visual art, street performances and literary texts. Some contributors focus on famous people and places, like Shakespeare and St Paul-s, while others explore less well-known subjects, like the Free German League of Culture (1939-46) or Ignatius Sancho, the eighteenth-century musician, grocer and man-of-letters.

It is not only London-s cultures which are diverse, migration is also plural. This book engages with the very many hu