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Introduction: a visitor's guide to metropole London, Celina Fox (Museumof London); London and the world, Martin Daunton (University CollegeLondon); pantomime and pagentry - the coronation of George VI, ValerieCumming (Museum of London); the building art of the first industrialmetropolis, Andrew Saint (English Heritage); metropolitan improvements- John Nash and the picturesque, J. Mordaunt Crook (Bedford and RoyalHolloway College, University of London); Rudolph Ackerman, Simon Jervis(Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge); patronage and the applied arts in19th-century London, Clive Wainwright (Victoria and Albert Museum);scientific London, Iwan Morus et al (University of Cambridge); "Athensrising near the Pole" - London, Athens and the idea of freedom, IanJenkins (British Museum); the London art world and its institutions,Peter Funnell (National Portrait Gallery); painting in London in theearly 19th century, Andrew Wilton (Tate Gallery); hidden metropolis -London in sentimental and romantic writing, Marilyn Butler (Universityof Cambridge); departing glories of the British theatre - setting sunsover a neo-classical landscape, Iain Mackintosh (theatre historian);radical culture, H.T. Dickinson (University of Edinburgh).