The Story of London's Lost Docklands

For five centuries, a narrow strip of riverbank east of the Tower of London was a world unto itself, governed by its own rules and soaked in vice, stolen cargo, opium, and blood. This is the story of London's Docklands, told from the waterline up: the smugglers and the hangings, the murders that gripped a nation, the opium myth that destroyed a community, the slave money that built the warehouses, and the gleaming towers that finally buried all of it. The same river that built the British Empire was also its darkest mirror. #london #londonhistory #docklands