'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 ...

For millennia the normal, natural and pleasurable activity of eating has been surrounded by fear ...

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

London is a city of markets: markets in meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, money, insurance, shipping...

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) magnificen...

'Whatever the subjects . . . Halliday's knowledge, imagination, and intellectual independenc...

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