London

A hundred villages pretending to be one city. Our journeys pick a handful and go deep — the makers of the East, the auction rooms, the markets that start before dawn.

Photographs

THE KEY AI corpus · Rafa Esteve, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Roger Davies, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · johnlobb1849.com · Matt Brown, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Alan Shearman, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · cockpitstudios.org · thesavoylondon.com · Phillip Perry, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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