FOR many Brits, tuberculosis (TB) may sound like a disease that died out with the Victorian slums. It’s remembered as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Old Vic theatre once played a major role in the history of the Temperance movement [Historic England] For many, the first ...

Jacqueline Riding’s meticulously researched history paints a vivid picture of working-class London in the Victorian and ...

The venue in question was the East London Museum of Science and Art, otherwise known as the Bethnal Green Museum. It opened in 1872, and it really was a shock to the system. The people of the East End ...

In June 1898, a violent crime inside a Hampstead lodging house shocked Victorian London. A young woman was attacked in a shared kitchen while others were nearby. The killer made no attempt to escape ...

Illegal sewage is flowing into London’s rivers, often from pipes regulators don’t even know exist. We went into the river to see it first hand.

I also lived in a house in Swiss Cottage, on Eton Avenue. In the high Victorian Gothic style, it had once been the studio for the artist John Collier, who painted Lady Godiva. I was lucky enough to ...

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Edward Chancellor analyzes technology manias to evaluate the AI boom. GMO warns that record valuations and overinvestment ...

Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding goes where few historians dare: south of ...