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       The City of London's oldest document is currently on public display
        
       Author : zeristor
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2022-10-01 07:33 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | Lio wrote:
       | For those that don't know, the City of London is the ancient
       | Roman core of Metropolitan London.
       | 
       | It has its own separate police force, distinct from the
       | Metropolitan Police that looks after the rest of London.
       | 
       | The City is also governed differently to the rest of England. I'm
       | guessing this document is probably part of the reason why.
       | 
       | It's the only place in the UK that's not run on the basis of 1
       | person 1 vote. Instead it's run by the City of London
       | Corporation. It's a city state within a city run as a
       | corporation.
       | 
       | It's ancient science fiction and weird as fuck. :P
       | 
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
        
         | jsmith99 wrote:
         | It's not _that_ different. There are 43 police forces in the
         | country, with different specialities, and the City of London
         | force leads (not very well) on financial crime. Businesses do
         | have a vote in local elections, but that was standard across
         | the UK until the Representation of the People Act 1969. The
         | Corporation of London is basically just a local council like
         | any other, albeit with a load of money and a load of
         | meaningless ceremonies (both for historical reasons).
        
         | klelatti wrote:
         | To add a little colour to this. The resident population of the
         | city is less than 10k - I'd guess around 3-4k in one
         | development the Barbican Centre - but 500k work there. 10k is
         | about one tenth of the population per Member of Parliament in
         | the U.K.
         | 
         | The City of London Police number just over 800.
         | 
         | So the demographics for a 'city' are very odd too.
        
           | easytiger wrote:
           | Its between 8/9k pop. The ward in which i live has fewer than
           | 400 voters
           | 
           | > 10k is about one tenth of the population per Member of
           | Parliament in the U.K.
           | 
           | City of London shares a constituency with Westminster "Two
           | Cities"
        
         | Tomte wrote:
         | Video by CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
        
           | pchristensen wrote:
           | Can't recommend this enough. It captures how truly
           | historically unique this place is.
        
       | zeristor wrote:
       | From the King that brought you the Harrying of the North comes a
       | contract to treat London nice...
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North
       | 
       | Although I guess they didn't agree.
       | 
       | Also I've never heard of a Portreeve before, I'm guessing they're
       | a Shirereeve for a port.
        
         | matthewmorgan wrote:
         | Not the last time we were sold out by London.
        
         | zeristor wrote:
         | Portreeve:
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portreeve
        
         | lmm wrote:
         | > From the King that brought you the Harrying of the North
         | comes a contract to treat London nice...
         | 
         | Your own link points out that he tried paying the northerners
         | off first.
        
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