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The most salient feature of London's experience in the early modern period was the enormous growth of its population. From approximately 70,000 inhabitants in 1500, it grew to 200,000 by 1600, to 400,000 by 1650, to 575,000 by 1700, and had reached 900,000 by 1800. Its position in the tables of European urban centers rose from sixth place in 1500 to third in 1600 (after Naples and Paris), and it outstripped Paris to reach the top position soon after 1650. Whereas it contained about 2 percent of the English population in 1500, by 1700 it had reached around 10 percent, and this level was sustained through the eighteenth century. Mortality levels were extremely high in London: indeed they deteriorated after the disappearance of plague in the later seventeenth century because the capital acted as a reservoir of infections. For much of the eighteenth century tuberculosis, typhus, and smallpox were major killers.
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Broadcasts "Classic tracks and today's best music" to London on this frequency. Nationally (same programme for nearly all the time) on 1215 kHz AM. Rock music and news, good stuff, aimed at an older audience than, say, Capital. Typical music - Oasis, Robbie Williams, Coldplay. Virgin reckon they are "The UK's Most Listened to Commercial Radio Station" with 7 million listeners UK-wide. On 13 October 1997 Chris Evans started a 10-week run on the Virgin breakfast slot; the show lasted until June 2001 when he was sacked. Mr Evans must have enjoyed his stay with the station...in December 1997 he acquired Virgin Radio from Richard Branson.
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As a capital city London benefited from the increasing centralization of government. As the royal court became more sedentary and ... asserted its monopoly of patronage, the landed elites came to see a London residence as essential to the maintenance of their power and influence, contributing to the beginning of the London winter season from 1600 onward. Likewise, the huge increase in the volume of litigation in the central law courts brought more people to the capital on legal business. This in turn contributed to the concentration of the professions in the capital: by 1730 London contained at least a quarter of the country's solicitors and attorneys. The development of the fiscal military state from the 1690s onward brought about both an increase in the size of the government apparatus (as well as annual Parliaments) and a huge expansion in the financial services sector as London acquired the key banking and insurance institutions.
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Based in Kent so you will only hear it in eastern parts of London. Part of the GCap Media plc group; Invicta's web site looks almost identical to Capital FM's. Also broadcasts on 102.8. See ... the sister station, Capital Supergold on 1242 kHz AM.
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