In 1848, the British government decided to draw up a precisely measured map of London. Imperial expansion had seen the city develop quickly, particularly around the docks and the City of London. There ...

Fake health news can feel like an epidemic these days, but it was also rampant during the Victorian era, when bodily ailments were often a matter of life-or death. But unlike the questionable remedies ...

Long before Shirley Temple and her curls paved the way for child stars to storm the silver screen, a young girl named Connie Gilchrist held all of Victorian London in thrall, entrancing artistic ...

The emotional meaning of a place from centuries ago can be difficult to resurrect. The Stanford Literary Lab has plotted quotes from over 700 19th-century authors who mentioned locations in London in ...

London has always been a hub for photography. The very first photo of London was taken in 1839, only a matter of weeks after the French government revealed the secrets of daguerreotype photography in ...

The Victorian City: Images and Realities edited by HJ Dyos and Michael Woolf (Routledge, 1973) Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London by Lynda Nead (Yale University ...

This former Victorian water tower in the London borough of Lambeth has been turned into an architecturally impressive single-family home. The transformation of the Grade II-listed structure, built in ...

Hand-painted art nouveau tiles and a mahogany payment kiosk feature in this London former butcher’s shop, which hit the market this month. The north London home has an ornate 1900s interior from its ...

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