Long before the Olympic flame reached London, a German gymnasium in King’s Cross was limbering up, stripping off and helping to set the modern Games in motion.
Read MoreAnniversary of Prince Albert’s birth. His death left Queen Victoria inconsolable, changed the colour of a London police lamp and left a remarkable trail through the capital.
Read MoreThe dead poet is George Meredith, the garret is in Gray’s Inn, and the painter is about to run away with his model’s wife.
Read MoreA navigational error. Nine Londoners dead. Edward R. Murrow at his microphone in Trafalgar Square. And the night the Blitz began.
Read MoreThe railway laureate, an Oxford don, a baby, and infantry…
Read MoreThe more you know about Fragonard, the more beautiful The Swing becomes.
Read MoreConstant Lambert had wit, genius, glamour, appetite and almost no instinct whatsoever for self-preservation.
Read MoreOne outrageous evening in Covent Garden tells you almost everything you need to know about Restoration London.
Read MorePhyllida Law – Ave atque vale
Read MoreBefore the first train steamed into London, its story had begun on a remote island in Lake Huron, with an eighteen-year-old soldier building a fort in the Canadian wilderness.
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