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Period dramas and period films usually always prove to be a popular thing to watch – this being the UK after all – and the behemoth that was  certainly proved to be a pop cultural phenomenon. It smashed all viewing reco...

Calling all , fans of visually stunning shows, and those who love to after dark - we've got just the event for you. Running for a limited time this month, Crown and Coronation is a dazzling light show that is taking ov...

Luscious parks, glorious gardens and pockets of dotted all around the city are a definite plus of living in London. Finsbury Circus Gardens is on that list and is in fact the largest and oldest public park in the City...

Black Friday has grown over the years and has now entered our calendars as one of the best periods of the year--save for Boxing Day, perhaps--to grab a bargain on pretty much anything. And, given we're entering the f...

In celebration of National Engineering Day today (November 1) Transport for London has partnered with the Royal Academy of Engineering to launch a new ‘Engineering Icons’ themed map to honour leading engineers from Lon...

For music and art lovers alike, the has just revealed its inaugural landmark exhibition titled The Music Is Black: A British History, which is set to open in 2025 at the new Stratford site. The exhibition is set to rev...

is a Christian celebration, but its roots are complex. Many of the traditional elements of Halloween come from the Pagan, Celtic harvest festival of Samhain. With the rise of Christianity in places like England and Ire...

is the one time of the year that ghostly and sinister spirits unleash themselves on the world for - what we assume to be - one crazy night of spooking and stalking. But at these hotels, it's a ghost fest all year round...

Calling all actors, poets, linguists, playwrights, and lovers of the Bard – your chance has come to go back in time and live as Shakespeare would have. For a short while, at least. Visitors to the Globe Theatre are bein...

A derelict house in has opened its creaking doors to give visitors a rare opportunity to step inside and have a nosey around, as the dilapidated building is currently host to an exciting of the early works of esteemed...