London is a treasure trove of Knights Templar locations. From the solemn splendour of Temple Church to the dark histories of Smithfield, these locations allow visitors to touch the mysterious and somewhat mythologized history of the Knights Templar.
For over 300 years, London Bridge was infamous for displaying the severed heads of traitors and rebels, mounted on spikes as warnings to all who dared challenge the crown.
Welcome to the age-old, utterly addictive pastime of mudlarking, where ordinary folks turn into part-time treasure hunters on the riverbanks of London.
Stand on the river wall at Island Gardens and the Thames curves round you like a sly grin. The Isle
There’s a fireplace on Vincent Street, Westminster that shouldn’t exist. It stands, brick-red and defiant, half-swallowed by ivy and railings,
In early December 1952, London — a city accustomed to its pea-soup fogs — found itself swallowed by something far
She slips through the misty alleys of London’s memory like a whispered scandal — Elizabeth Cresswell, known in her time
London likes to think of itself as endlessly modern and progressive, but in 1913, the idea of a Black man
Londoners live on layers. Tube tunnels snake under Georgian sewers under Tudor vaults under Roman roads. But there is one
London loves its eccentrics. We carve them into blue plaques, mutter their names in pub stories, and stitch them into
Stand at Bankside today and you’ll be jostled by tourists photographing the Tate, couples queuing for the Globe, and joggers
Deep below the 14 storey Guy’s Hospital in London are the preserved remains of a Roman boat. The remains of
London has seen its share of moments but few events combine slapstick comedy and genuine peril quite like the morning of 30 December 1952, when a red double-decker bus — Route 78 to Dulwich — made an unplanned and entirely unsanctioned leap across Tower Bridge.
In the clatter and coal-smoke of Victorian London, amid the swirling soot of empire and exploitation, there lived a man
The Hidden Skeleton of Roman London London doesn’t shout about its oldest bones. It lets you stumble over them, like
In a century wracked by empire, powdered wigs, and the polite hypocrisies of Georgian England, Charles Ignatius Sancho did something
Long before London’s sewers became the underground marvel they are today—racing waste away like a shameful secret—there were the Night
The remains of a woman, dating back some 1,200 years, uncovered on the banks of the River Thames, have revealed
For over seven centuries, Bartholomew Fair reigned as London’s most raucous and dazzling festival, a spectacle that blurred the lines
Before Instagram beefs and Twitter spats, there was a more dignified way to settle an insult in London: you got up
Before craft beer and beard oil took over Shoreditch, before the avocadoisation of the East End, there stood—believe it or
If you stand on the banks of the Thames today, squinting past the steely grandeur of Tower Bridge and the
Once upon a grimy time, long before recycling was a moral obligation and waste disposal was a streamlined municipal affair,
Beneath the bustling streets of modern London lie remnants of a bygone era, whispering tales of a city that once
London—grand, historic, and occasionally, absolutely furious. Beneath the city’s polished exterior lies a long history of unrest, with riots erupting
Tucked away on a quiet cobbled street in Rotherhithe, the Mayflower Pub is one of London’s most atmospheric watering holes. It’s a
In the muck-strewn maze of 18th and 19th-century London, where horse-drawn carriages ruled and street sanitation barely existed, one group
The Strand is one of London’s grandest roads. This iconic thoroughfare has seen it all: the rise and fall of
In 1616, a young Powhatan woman arrived in London, wrapped in the furs and silks of an unfamiliar world, her
Call the Midwife, the much-loved BBC drama, has captured the hearts of millions with its portrayal of midwifery in the
