Panikos Panayi
While migration may have become key to understanding the modern world, the former British imperial capital of London, the first truly global city, has a unique history of interacting with people from beyond its shores. Its development into the largest city in the world by the early nineteenth century, a position it would hold well into the following century, largely took place as a result of internal migration, including, however, significant numbers of people from Ireland, as well as decreasing mortality due to health and nutritional advances.
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