This I A Sit Back With A Mug Of Coffee Video,

and in in just seven minutes,

 the “The London Evolution Animation” will show you the historical development of London over the course of 2,000 years, the animation moves from the Roman port city of Londinium (circa 50 AD) through the Anglo-Saxon, Tudor, Stuart, Early Georgian, Late Georgian, Early Victorian and Late Victorian periods. It then brings you through the Early 20th Century and into Postwar London. Developed by The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, the animation was made with historical data about London’s road networks and buildings, if you find it difficult to read the text in the animation, you can view the video in a larger format here, and in case you’re wondering, the enlarging yellow dots show “the position and number of statutorily protected buildings and structures built during each period.” More information on the animation can be found here, the video was found at Metafilter, what an amazing video, I knew that London started off small, but I had no idea that at one stage London in Roman times really was so small.