So as you may have guessed, this look a lot longer than expected (I've been working on it since early November last year). I may do more city videos in future (New York is likely to be the next one), but if I do I'll treat it as a long-term project and upload smaller videos in between. Thanks for watching!

@South_Asian.Fascist-98

3 жыл бұрын

First View

@sittingbull5570

3 жыл бұрын

It would be great to see some other cities

@mps2112

3 жыл бұрын

It's awesome, keep doing what you're doing I love your maps!

@andrefarfan4372

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@bomaracev

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Yes, please do other cities.

_industrial revolution starts_ London to the surrounding countryside: *om nom nom*

@thumper8684

3 жыл бұрын

That might have more to do with railways.

@WhitehornMichael

3 жыл бұрын

The industrial revolution was 100 years before that.

@dorthusiast

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't to do with the industrial revolution, by 1863 the country had already become industrialised but the central areas of London were extremely overcrowded. The urban expansion was more to do with railways being extended to outer areas of London and people finding it more comfortable to settle in the suburbs.

@robtyman4281

3 жыл бұрын

V interesting!! it took alot longer for London to grow than many people assume, but it really took off after about 1890. So it passed the 100,000 mark during the reign of Elizabeth I, saw 500,000 around 1680 and made it to a Million by 1810.

@marcoroberts9462

3 жыл бұрын

@@WhitehornMichael the industrial revolution wasn’t one distinct moment

PHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAR!!!!!!!!!!!

@finnvictorsson

3 жыл бұрын

map men

@IVaV1

3 жыл бұрын

that is many exclamations

@DaringNote62

3 жыл бұрын

Only 2 likes?

@timothymeyer3210

3 жыл бұрын

Better see a unfinish map london men soon

@SpahGaming

3 жыл бұрын

The man himself, jay.

I have no meme to think of, so I honestly just wanted to say that your maps are awesome and you somehow always nail new topics.

@admiralackbar3615

3 жыл бұрын

Well said.

@adnan_honest_jihadist5775

3 жыл бұрын

fuck memes

@destroyedtelephone4124

3 жыл бұрын

i dont like london

@juandavidesguerra5423

3 жыл бұрын

@@destroyedtelephone4124 k

@derpynerdy6294

3 жыл бұрын

You have an anime as your pfp Your opinion is invalid

Industrialisation: *happens* Green colors: *may we introduce ourselves*

@jakubzagraniczny733

3 жыл бұрын

When Weltreich?

@bobanimationsgroup7652

3 жыл бұрын

Hey! Good to see you here! Love your vids!

@WTFCDFoxy

3 жыл бұрын

@Crusader Knightz 393 It is not the industry itself that is causing environmental problems, but the mode of producing. Industry on itself lifted humanity to a much higher stage of Historical development, and we can get even higher, only if the producers owned the means of production.

@JJaqn05

3 жыл бұрын

@Crusader Knightz 393 No actually life and living conditions were much worse before the industrial revolution

@sunitapandey7846

3 жыл бұрын

@Crusader Knightz 393 life was much worse before then..

The colour scheme is light and hence looks fresh and much more attractive to watch, well done!

To anyone who thinks this is over generalised work. It's really isnt. It's highly detailed. I know the history of my area and the land and I saw it develop exactly the way it should have. Well done

@stewartlancaster6155

Жыл бұрын

you must be very very old to have seen all that development !

@TheFreshSpam

Жыл бұрын

@@stewartlancaster6155 I'm a vampire 🧛‍♂️ In all seriousness though the land registry and old parish maps collate exactly to this timelined video. The level of research every few seconds of screentime is insane as you would think someone on KZread would generalise the data or simplify it but its just not

@shore1001

Жыл бұрын

Lol so you have been around since 400

RIP Middlesex gone but not forgotten.

@iratepirate3896

3 жыл бұрын

RIP old Surrey

@syrus3657

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was wondering that, as someone from Middlesex, what the hell happened to it?

@iratepirate3896

3 жыл бұрын

@@syrus3657 Central government brought in reforms in the 60s that abolished it when they created the bloated monster that is Greater London.

@postmorton2493

3 жыл бұрын

@@syrus3657I was born there too! Unfortunately, along with the county of London, it ceased to exist in an administrative sense in 1965 when Greater London was created and the boundaries were rearranged. Most of it was incorporated into Greater London but some ended up as parts of Surrey, Hertfordshire and Berkshire. Don't worry though because there are still 5 Middlesex counties in America! The middle saxons live on 🎷

@khorps4756

3 жыл бұрын

miss ya big man

Fun fact - when you see "London" on the motorway telling you how many miles it is till you get there, its actually measuring how long it is to Charing cross. And it measures it there because some royal used to receive messengers at Charing cross from across the realm and is thus considered the place where London meets the outside world.

Damn... the plague and the War of the Roses sure hit hard

@edRitchiee

3 жыл бұрын

WW2 also

@anomalousoddity

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that population drop too

@magfootball7270

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr London lost half of its population from the plague and it slowly recovered and then it got it hard again and for like 20 years the population wasn’t growing until the 1400s and from the war of the roses it lost half of its population again. And also when London was part of the Roman Empire they pretty much lost all of there population from the bubonic plague

@RicoChavez1

3 жыл бұрын

There were a couple of plague waves, plus WotRs

@Ben-ek1fz

Ай бұрын

@@edRitchieeyeah but that was more do to the 1950s boom and in the west people moved to suburbs or surrounding areas. You can see it with America too. Thats why the population plummeted

I found this when I was searching for any sort of guidance as to how big London was in Jane Austen’s time; (I'm doing Pride and Prejudice as part of a senior English course, and am a New Zealander who’s not yet had the pleasure of visiting London or the UK or Ireland.) I'm flabbergasted by how rapidly London grew after Austen’s time, especially during the Victorian era. Jane Austen wouldn't have recognised Victorian London. Thank you so much for making this. It's improved my understanding of London considerably. ❤

Ollie, I've known your channel since the first year you've been making videos. I'll be honest, I was a little dismissive of your videos early on, like that they were cute but not particularly informative or containing much historical value beyond painting a map. Now, seeing how far you've come and how much amazing detail you can find and put into your videos you've proves me wrong in so many ways and I couldn't be happier. Thanks for keeping on doing what you love, putting as much work and research into your projects as you do and continuing to teach your audience. This video sets a new standard for what we can expect from these kinds of videos, and I'm looking forward to seeing what amazing work you can put out next.

If my parents had moved to London in the early 1970s when house prices were low and the population down to 7.5 million they would have become property millionaires.

@Derek_S

3 жыл бұрын

@The Truth. My parents sold their house in East Barnet for £21,000 in 1978 and moved to a cheaper house in Suffolk to raise money for their retirement. Meanwhile, a friend who still lived in the same street until recently told me the people who bought the house from my parents sold it a couple of years ago for £500,000 !

@freespeechisneverwrong9351

3 жыл бұрын

@@Derek_S yes but £21,000 was a lot of money in 1978.

@SM-ly5tf

3 жыл бұрын

@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 Not really as the income back then was also 21000 ish in the uk on avg

@freespeechisneverwrong9351

3 жыл бұрын

@@SM-ly5tf Average real income in 1978 was just under £7k.

@SM-ly5tf

3 жыл бұрын

@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 damnn my granpa at the time was making bank then

Really liked the incredible graphics and animations, Its crazy to see how much London has grown since Roman Times. Great Job, Keep up the good work!

Last time I was this early, londinium still existed. Also amazing job, ollie, starting off the year well

Amazing how much London has spread. Seemed so large during the Victorian era but now that size looks small. I was in London in October 2015 and explored a bit of the countryside as well. Would really love to go back again

@fridayyy.2102

3 жыл бұрын

as i'm a brit, i've took a train to london a few times, i've seen buckingham palace, elizabeth tower, and grenfell tower, which got covered up after the fire. last time i went there was in july 2019

@rafaelcosta3238

3 жыл бұрын

I live close to London, and avoid it as much as I can. It is too crowded and expensive. Most times I go there is to get a train to other places.

@JJaqn05

3 жыл бұрын

@@rafaelcosta3238 It's not that crowded compared to other big cities especially the ones in India

@joachimmacdonald2702

3 жыл бұрын

Thing is most of the population is in the area built before 1900 it’s just surrounded by low density suburbs that take up way more space

@blagoevski336

Жыл бұрын

@@joachimmacdonald2702 yup, that's bad

Absolutely incredible video! Thanks so much for the effort in creating it - so interesting to see the expansion of my hometown over 2,000 years!

Last time I was this early. Ollie had finished his 1st 'History of the World'

So basically London never changed it's borders and London begun to grow around London and made London into the biggest city in the world while London becomes the City of London within London but is actually the London London from the days London was founded

@skylarius3757

3 жыл бұрын

London was never conquered by the Normans which is why the tower of London exists. The Normans built 2 other castles to surround London. Also the city of London has it's own police force, separate to the metropolitan police which covers the surrounding area.

@healfgael8493

3 жыл бұрын

@@skylarius3757 That's a bit of a misleading distinction. London was never conquered through the means of a siege, no. But that's because ultimately it didn't need to be because it almost immediately submitted to Norman rule and was assimilated into Norman society. The castles outside London were not because it was independent, they were to guard against uprising, just as castles were used similarly throughout William's kingdom. The fact that William was able to build the Tower immediately outside the Roman walls was because it had submitted; that task would be somewhat more difficult if the citizens were resisting. The positioning of the Tower, overlooking the old city, was one of domination. William recognised London's special rights and privileges through London's 1067 charter, but just because it had special rights doesn't mean that it wasn't within his kingdom. In fact it proves that it was - how can William issue a charter for a city if he doesn't rule it? After a fire in 1077, in which the original Tower was destroyed, William decreed that all fires in the City must be extinguished at night. Despite this, another fire in 1087 destroyed St Paul's, which was immediately rebuilt by William. Again, how was William rebuilding structures in the middle of a city he didn't rule? The Bishops of London, based at St Paul's (Hugh d'Orevalle, Maurice, Richard de Beaumis, Gilbert Universalis), were all Norman appointments. Again, how?

@Indienheld

3 жыл бұрын

London

@seanspindleshanks2529

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the real Londons were the friends we made along the way.

@L1M.L4M

2 жыл бұрын

Did you just use London 10 times in one sentence?

Amazing video and really well produced. Bravo. Loved working out the rough maths of the expansion - but was really interesting to see the population only passed half a million around 1680, but it's grown 20x that in the past 350 years.

broo, the ammount of details and so good editing, this is beyond perfect

Needs a scale for size visualization, otherwise wow incredible project! Well done

@AudieHolland

3 жыл бұрын

Just remember that the City of London is 2.90 km2 (1.12 sq mi)

@sssddfsafsda494

3 жыл бұрын

the greater lonon ara is about 50km wide end to end

@SpahGaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@sssddfsafsda494 Area*

This is awesome ! This is already my favourite video of all the ones you have made (and I really like A LOT of your maps), this map is looking so neat and full ! You've been making maps videos for years but still impress me, CONGRATULATIONS ! If I may suggest some other cities's growth for future videos : New York City, Roma, Paris and Istanbul/Constantinople.

Brilliant and fascinating piece of work. One of the best things on YT I've seen in a long time. Thanks so much.

The fact you managed to find all the data is incredible!

Loved the detail, especially little things like the evolution of Heathrow in the past 60 years which I found fascinating!

I really appreciate the hard work you put into this. Amazing job!

I have no idea how you put this together but it seems like the amount of work/ research involved must have been a lot - great video thanks!

"You're not useless" Me: British Isles ranking for london

@xander1052

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, at the start it wasn't 1st :P

@NeongenesisXp

3 жыл бұрын

@@xander1052 Winchester go brrr

@xander1052

3 жыл бұрын

@@NeongenesisXp More so cirencester as that was the original centre of Roman Britain

@thomasrinschler6783

3 жыл бұрын

@@xander1052 Colchester you mean.

@xander1052

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasrinschler6783 it was one of the two

Industrial Age: **Occurs** London to the Countryside: *Hippity hoppity this is now my property*

@himalayas1647

3 жыл бұрын

All farmers lost their jobs lol

@maharlikanandproud15yearsa25

3 жыл бұрын

@Alfie Green Yeah and those open areas r just Parks

@maharlikanandproud15yearsa25

3 жыл бұрын

@Alfie Green They are. I can recognise a few of them. Some are private property but the majority are Parklands

@maharlikanandproud15yearsa25

3 жыл бұрын

@Alfie Green If you live in London you can at least recognise those places

@fragostin

3 жыл бұрын

@@arolemaprarath6615 ??

I literally forgot about this channel. Great to see you back ollie

Ollie this was beautiful and would love to see you continue it with other cities!

Welcome back !

Happy New Years Ollie. Glad to see you back!

@marinero_de_los_versos

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, tou're my favourite map youtuber! :)

Ollie - this is absolutely fascinating. Thanks for putting this on youtube.

Great work, I love all the info on the side, it makes it easy to follow.

Eltham has Victorian buildings as does Beckenham, yet they show as uninhabited during the Victorian era on here. But generally pretty absorbing graphics that tell the story well.

And the Lord said ”Let this become a new series”, and it was so, and God saw that it was good (and he pressed like).

I see why this project took you so long. This is really good. Great work!

Wow. I really liked how you put all your effort in this, I really appreciate your hard work on this masterpiece. And also the video is really great.

This is a step forwards in mapping, amazing video.

The year is 3000 AD and London has consumed the world.

Such a great Idea and great work ! Would love to see it for other great cities like Prague, Brussel or even Paris !

Happy new year Ollie! Welcome back! You are the best!

Ollie, love your videos. Can you do one for the growth of Tokyo? We always see the west, never the east.

These city growths are super interesting! Could you do Warsaw or Krakow next?

LOVE your channel. Keep up the amazing work :)

You must have worked so hard putting this together, but the result is brilliant, well done!

"Ey wanna take the london look Ol' Champ" **Literally nobody in the 500**

@Battyj

3 жыл бұрын

It's meant to be chap not champ

Tfw London had a population in roman times that they didn't reach again until the 14th century. Roman times were truly the greatest

@Fred_the_1996

3 жыл бұрын

And the population of rome only recovered its imperial period numbers in the industrial revolution😳

@timothymatthews6458

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fred_the_1996 Shut up. Life in Rome wasn't good for 99% of people.

@Fred_the_1996

3 жыл бұрын

@@timothymatthews6458 ? What I said had nothing to do with the quality of life, ofc 19th century life was a lot better than roman life lmao. Still, the quality of life must've been way better in ancient rome than in the early middle ages

@y.r._

3 жыл бұрын

@VINNIE Abcde I hate the french and english. So no thanks.

@JJaqn05

3 жыл бұрын

@@y.r._ You hate the French and the English because you're jealous that those two countries had the biggest empires in history and were very powerful and are still very powerful today

Happy New Year Ollie. Always love and appreciate your videos

Excellent video happy to see you back

suggestion: The Growth of Paris: Every Year The Growth of Berlin: Every Year The Growth of Rome: Every Year The Growth of Istanbul: Every Year The Growth of Saint Petersburg: Every Year

@EnviedShadow

3 жыл бұрын

The growth of Rome would be very interesting, considering how it's expanded and contracted over the millennia.

@roshansri1636

3 жыл бұрын

Only cause I'm Canadian, the growth of Toronto every month lol

@Lazar620

3 жыл бұрын

Konstantinopoli*

@solfennell8981

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lazar620 *Istanbul. Its been officially called Istanbul since the 1920s

@Lazar620

3 жыл бұрын

@@solfennell8981 no turkish mud on greek land

- 200 AD Roman London - Population 64,000 😊 - 1300 AD Medieval London- Population 40,000 😂

Amazing video! You should make similar ones on other cities or a series of it actually.

Such a unique concept for a video. I really enjoyed it!

This is INCREDIBLE! How I love my home city, London. Watching this was beautiful. Absolutley insane the growth from the 20's/30's up until WW2. Its nothing less than an explosion.

Can you make a growth video of New York City, next?

Fascinating stuff! Very well done.

Incredible! Keep up the good work!

Out of 2000 years of history, London saw the most exponential growth in one century.

@SpahGaming

3 жыл бұрын

Thats what expolential growth is. In 1000 years it doubles, from tiny to small then 500 years from small to less small then 250 to sizable then 120 to giant and 60 to... green belt and basically the same.

Hey Ollie! Can you make a video on History of Nepal?

I'm legitimately impressed you took the time to make this.

Baffling - well done, as usual!

I really like this style of Animation and the new topic! Also join his discord

It seemed to stop expanding in the final years. I guess it hit the green belt, and started to build high rise instead. It's better to develop some other cities than to keep growing London to eat up the countryside.

This is so cool, thank you for making it.

Well done. I love your mapping videos

London, Yorkshire, And Nottinghamshire are some of the nicest looking parts of England

@xesphor1436

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, I think London used to be better

@MichaelJohnsonAzgard

3 жыл бұрын

Having lived in London I thought it was the ugliest looking part of England.

@rokivulovic7598

3 жыл бұрын

in london you cannot find any britons at all, it's like you enter another country

Congratulations for your job. Now, you can do cities like Madrid, Paris or Roma?

@GF-yh9tb

3 жыл бұрын

@Antonio Ferrara But in medieval age, Roma had decreases and dropouts interesting to see.

I was just thinking about you today Ollie. What a pleasant surprise.

You are INSANELY talented holy shit this is fantastic

Very impressive, please also do one for the other top 10 largest cities in the UK: Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Bristol, Sheffield, and Edinburgh.

@simonh6371

3 жыл бұрын

Birmingham started existing around 700AD as a Saxon village (named after Beorma) and remained a village until Victorian times. Like London, surrounding villages (e.g. Erdington named after Eordwulf I think?) grew together to form the city.

I appreciate the effort you put into your videos, and it inspires me to make my own channel about history and specifically about Middle East and North Africa because I love the history for these regions and I'm an Arabian Muslim too! Can you please do a reboot of the tutorial you did 4 years ago? It's really hard, I mean drawing the borders by using the mouse is impossible. I hope there's a new way to do it and more easier. Please make a new tutorial. Thanks and I liked the video!

Great video! Very interesting. It must have been hard to get all the population data!

Wow. Utterly brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

Remember the outer lying regions had villages and towns that were also growing, it wasn't all just empty land. They just got swallowed up. A lot of the more recent growth is political geographical changes to boundaries etc. Croydon wasn't classed as part of London even when I was a kid and the map shows Caterham on the southern outskirts. People today wouldn't class that as London. All that said, a very well made vid.

The coolest mapping of 2021 so far

AMAZING VIDEO OLLIE!

This is some really good shit 👍. Keep up the work mate❤️

Everyone's going on about the start of the 1800s, but London almost doubled in size in the 1930s alone!

People will blame tea

Exceptional video ! Congratulations !

Your visualisations of data are truly divine, a real inspiration.

Chinese cities: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

West Ham *Best Ham*

This must have veen ridiculously difficult to produce. . . Well done. Very interesting to see the process of urbanization. . .

this si really intersting and orderly sad how many views there are seriously it deserves more

Please do İstanbul as well.

@Fred_the_1996

3 жыл бұрын

IT'S CALLED BYZANTION

@ce1834

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the might of Constantinople would be awesome to watch!

@metehankanmaz8805

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fred_the_1996 🤦🏼‍♂️

@Fred_the_1996

3 жыл бұрын

@@metehankanmaz8805 it was a joke

@metehankanmaz8805

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fred_the_1996 Okay. 😶

A turtle approved this cool video

@sriyasodharmma4021

3 жыл бұрын

good turtle

@felps1917

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks turtle

Coming back again to comment on how accurate this map actually is. This isnt just filler he coloured and timed for fun, this is painstaking detail. Amazing work

This is just incredible! defo worth a subscribe :)

"Britannia" *rule the waves*

@GrigRP

3 жыл бұрын

Why do you post unfunny try hard comments on every video?

@scintillam_dei

3 жыл бұрын

Iberia ruled more because Felipe II shared no ocean with any rival except three seas with Turks (Med. Red & Persian Gulf).

@galaxyred7

3 жыл бұрын

as a Irish guy, I feel offended.

@scintillam_dei

3 жыл бұрын

@@galaxyred7 I plan to learn Irish.

@jimboyle6974

3 жыл бұрын

@@galaxyred7 what do you feel offended about? Asks a fellow Irish guy

İstanbul PLEASE!

@vattghern257

3 жыл бұрын

u mean Constantinople ?

@user-xm5eq5rm9o

3 жыл бұрын

@@vattghern257 There is no city called Constantinople. The name of that city is Istanbul. I am from Turkey >:(

@vattghern257

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-xm5eq5rm9o what else? You will call greek yoghurt, turkish? Ha! Kappa

@user-xm5eq5rm9o

3 жыл бұрын

@@vattghern257 FATIH SULTAN MEHMET conquered Istanbul in 1453. Now get the f#ck out of here. Istanbul Turkey alanine. The name of that city is ISTANBUL!🖕🤛

@vattghern257

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-xm5eq5rm9o Ha! go with that weirdo

Great work as usual

Cool video man!

47 - Londinium 2021 - London 2050 - Londonstan...

@reddwarfer999

Жыл бұрын

Yawn.

London is London no more now

@robinhood7874

3 жыл бұрын

MEDIEVAL TIMES WERE THE BEST

@truesosense7722

Ай бұрын

@@robinhood7874 💀💀💀💀

Amazing work!

Awesome video man