World As It Was

Choose a place. Choose a year. Press Travel. World As It Was rebuilds a city as it stood, from the historical record, and walks you through it. A handful of stops, each one somewhere you could stand today, narrated in the voice of someone who lived there. London in 1666, with a waterman on the night of the fire. Rome in the year 120, when a million people had to be fed every day. Stockholm in 1650, in Queen Christina's harbour. Twenty-two walks across seven cities, from the second century to the edge of living memory. A WALK, NOT AN ARTICLE Every stop is a real place. Do it standing in the street it describes, or from a chair a thousand miles away. WE SHOW YOU HOW SURE WE ARE History has gaps, and we would rather show them than paper over them. Facts carry their own confidence, separately: what is known, what is likely, and what has been reconstructed. Archive images are never presented…