Ever wondered what London used to look like during the festive season? Thanks to the Museum of London’s extensive collection of images, which were snapped by Henry Grant during the 50s and 60s, we can imagine it a...
Here’s a look at the V&A Museum’s new digs out at Stratford. Given that we’ve waited 166 years for the Victoria & Albert Museum‘s encore, it was always going to have to be pretty impressi...
A beautiful installation has been unveiled at the Tower of London. Marking 100 years since the end of World War 1, the moat of the historic castle has been filled with flickering torches, in a moving piece called ‘...
Tucked away in the heart of Spitalfields is a Georgian Grade II listed building, Dennis Severs’ House. It’s now home to a fascinating artistic rendering of a particular strand of East End history – you...
Take a summer trip to Hampton Court Palace – and check out the mystifying maze. 300 years ago, the aristocracy didn’t have ceaseless social media updates to generate feelings of anxiety, alienation and ennui. No,...
It’s not WW3! The RAF are celebrating their 100th anniversary with an epic flypast over London. Watch the skies on Tuesday, July 10: at 1pm an almighty strike force will come screaming over central London. [Header...
Michael Caine’s My Generation celebrates the ups and downs of the swinging sixties. Sir Michael Caine and co have been working on this project for six years now, so it’s definitely worth a look in. They’ve sifted throug...
Anyone who’s anyone has lived on Cheyne Walk, dahling. Having survived Romans, plagues, fires, and the Blitz, London has a fair bit of history to stand on. And whilst you can go all over town to see it, there̵...
If urban foxes give you the heebie-jeebies, then you’d have liked London even less back in the day. That’s according to a fascinating timeline of Britain’s climatic history, put together by the Natural...