Why London’s Canal Tours Might Be the City’s Best-Kept Secret

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It’s easy to forget London is a city of water. We’re so busy herding ourselves onto the Jubilee line and…

The Deer Return to Greenwich Park After Four Years Away

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For four long years, the deer were gone — as if spirited away by time itself. The Wilderness enclosure in…

Review: Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell – Sadler’s Well

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A tortured intoxicated dance of loneliness, longing, and last orders in London There is a peculiar sort of ache that…

The Night Soil Men of London: When the Streets Ran Brown

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Long before London's sewers became the underground marvel they are today—racing waste away like a shameful secret—there were the Night…

Hope & Anchor: The Islington Pub That Invented Punk (Sort Of)

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By the time you finish reading this sentence, at least two new craft beer pubs will have opened in London,…

The Lady of the Thames: A Medieval Execution

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The remains of a woman, dating back some 1,200 years, uncovered on the banks of the River Thames, have revealed…

The Millennium Bridge: London’s Wobbliest Wonder

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Sleek, elegant, and deceptively simple, the Millennium Bridge is one of London’s most arresting pieces of urban design—a steel ribbon…

Spitalfields Market: A Guide

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Spitalfields is not a market. It is a séance. A street-corner time machine. A place where London’s past doesn’t so…

Notting Hill’s Blacklash: Locals Paint Over the Pastels to Escape the Grammers

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For decades, the pastel terraces of Notting Hill have been among London’s most-photographed façades—an architectural sugar rush of pinks, yellows,…

Secrets, Satire and Satin: Inside London’s Molly Houses of the 18th Century

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In the shadowy alleyways of Georgian London, behind innocuous doors and beneath dripping eaves, a revolution of wigs and waistcoats…

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