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Hannah is a feature writer and critic whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Financial Times.
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For most of its history, London was dark — now it's illuminated 24/7. What happens to a city's atmosphere in an age of LEDs, asks Hannah Williams.
Or does it? Hannah visits the city's historic boozers to find out
‘Almost every buzzy launch of a bar or restaurant in the city features a painted sign with a faux-patina or a Victorian scrubbed-wood panel’
Candy stores, tourist traps and the councillor who says of City Hall's dramatic new proposal: 'They don't know what they're doing'
'There’s a reason they’ve been telling stories about London for thousands of years'