London’s history

Picture of the Frost Fair on the Thames

Q&A Did the Thames used to freeze over?

Amazing inventions and London after dark

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Old news: A tiger braves the mean streets of east London

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Q&A Could you really once be hanged for impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner?

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Georgian London: Into the Streets

A depiction of a public hanging of a bandit. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London

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New website charts London’s well-being across 125 years

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Reliving the Great Fire: historian Kate Williams live-tweets the 1666 London blaze

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Pompeii comes to London

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Live genealogy show returns to London Olympia

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Mr Foote’s Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London

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The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London

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The Secret History of Our Streets: London

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The Bridges That Built London with Dan Cruickshank

Members of the royal family on board the royal barge 'Spirit of Chartwell'. (Rota/Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

The Library The Thames triumphant: royal parties on London’s grandest street