Resembling laboratories where experiments are conducted in the art of handling, sharing and humbling power, cities have always played a vital role in the history of democracy. London – a bubbling democratic cauldron of differences – is no exception.
These videos are short stories of characters, some rather less well known than others, who helped make it what it is today.
John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797)
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797)
