The jaunty image of the Victorian child chimney sweep is indelibly romantic, evoking the picturesque London glamorized in ...

That was the rallying cry of London’s first vegetarian restaurant, which opened at 429 Oxford Street in 1879. The Alpha Food ...

Known as ‘stinkpipes’, these vertical iron tunnels were put up around the city in the Victorian era. They were essentially built to make London less stinky, and would funnel noxious gases out of the ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip in stunningly well-preserved wax ...

Abandoned buildings were transformed into new community hubs, as in the case of an old HSBC bank in Harlesden, north-west London, built in the Victorian era. The residents of one community in ...

This newly refurbished duplex penthouse takes up the top two floors of a historic red brick mansion block that dates to 1878 on Cadogan Square, an enclave within London’s super affluent ...