'By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.' - Samuel JohnsonFrom Chauc...

Why did London have to wait so long for a main-line railway beneath its streets? For a few years ...

The Little Book of Crime and Punishment is a repository of fascinating, obscure, strange and ente...

There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the...

'An extraordinary history' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times'A lively account of (Bazalgette's) magnif...

London's Underground is one of the best-known and most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Vic...

Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries ...