What happened on this day in history? Historian Dominic Sandbrook rounds up the events, births and deaths that happened this week…
Featured anniversary | 10 January 1863: The London Underground opens to a sceptical public
For its critics, the arrival of the London Underground marked the moment the capital descended into bedlam. The idea of a subterranean train had first been mooted in the 1840s, but work did not begin on what became the Metropolitan Railway until 1860…
