Why isn't the City of London the capital of Great Britain?

The City of London is a strange little isolated enclave with its own rules, like a Native American reservation if Wall Street was inside it. It does ritual and money, not government. read more

Great Britain HAS NO capital: it is an island, not a nation. The City of London IS NOT a capital: it is the seat of no government. The City of London IS NOT the capital of Great Britain, from above. London is the capital of the United Kingdom. London is the capital of England. read more

When there was a Kingdom of Great Britain, London was always its capital, but that was only from 1707 to 1801. Since 1801, London has been the capital of the United Kingdom. The Romans made London (Londinium) the capital of their province of Britannia almost 2000 years ago, but that only lasted until 410 AD. read more

A brutal blood-soaked bid to wipe London off the map was a key factor that led to the city first emerging as Britain's capital. New archaeological research is showing that London's elevated status stemmed partly from a Roman military and political reaction to Boadicea's violent destruction of London and other key cities in the mid 1st century AD. read more