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Here's some stuff we could add in to this article to flesh it out and make it more similar to the other London History articles. This is mostly just a note to self, but if you'd like to work on it too, be my guest:
Demographics- DONE
New buildings; architecture; expansion- DONE
Crime & law enforcement, incl. Bloody Code, Jack Sheppard, executions, punishments, prisons, bodysnatchers, Marine Police Force, Bow Street Runners, Gordon Riots, molly houses, Harris' List- DONE
Culture (literature, theatre, art, music, sport etc., including Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Royal Society, Doggett's Coat and Badge, Daniel Mendoza, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, newspapers, Johnson's dictionary, Lord's, Handel, Mozart, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jeremy Bentham, gentlemen's clubs)
Enclosure of London's suburbs and anti-enclosure protests
Trade & manufacture (incl. Spitalfields silk, Coade Stone, West India Dock, John Harrison, South Sea Company)
Schools, incl. Sunday Schools
Religion, incl. Methodism
Miscellaneous- Foundling Hospital, British Museum, Kew Gardens, foreign visitors e.g. Tomochichi and Omai, slavery & abolition, canals, turnpike mania