What did the Romans do for us? Well, 2,000 years ago they founded London on the site that now encompasses the City of London, the world's financial centre.

London may have been founded by the Romans as Londinium but a lot was going on here as far back as prehistoric times. Start from the beginning and walk through London's thousands of years of tumultuous but always fascinating history - from the Anglo-Saxon village it once was to the 21st-century megalopolis it has become.

‘Old Jewry' says it all. In 1066 William the Conqueror brought with him his personal Jews to handle the money side of his Conquest. Old Jewry was London's first ghetto. William knew that in London, money was the true ruler. It still is.

Christopher Wren has to have been the canniest architect in the history of architecture! He came along just as a new King was enthusing about the latest rage in Continental building styles – neo-classical.