Heritage Gallery Exhibition: 1327 and the City of London

1327 and the City of London opens at the City of London Heritage Gallery on 30 October, and it's on until 29 April 2027. It's curated by The London Archives, who've pulled together a selection of items from their collections to look at a particular stretch of the City's history.

The whole thing centres on 1327, the year Edward III took the throne. It was a dramatic turning point: his father, Edward II, had been deposed by Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, and the new reign marked a clean break from what came before. The exhibition uses royal charters and civic chronicles to trace the period that shaped the City as we know it.

Among the items on display is the 1327 royal charter granted by Edward III to the City itself. Alongside it, you'll find Andrew Horn's Liber Horn, Letter Book E (covering 1314 to 1337), and The Great Chronicle of London. These aren't just old books; they're the records the City lived by, and seeing them together gives you a sense of how the administration and the chronicles of the time actually worked.

The Heritage Gallery is housed inside the Guildhall Art Gallery and the Roman Amphitheatre, and it shows a rotating selection of rare documents from The London Archives. The archives sit at the heart of London's and the nation's political and social history, and this display is one of the ways they bring those records out of the vaults and into the public eye.

Entry is free, and the gallery is open Monday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm, with the last admission at 4:45pm. You'll find it at the Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE.