[HN Gopher] The City of London's oldest document is currently on... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.ianvisits.co.uk) (TXT) w3m dump (www.ianvisits.co.uk) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-03 23:01 UTC)