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 ...
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The Victorian pumping station that helped save London from disease
Discover how London's Crossness Pumping Station transformed sanitation and became one of Britain's greatest engineering ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
An eight-bedroom Victorian mansion in The Boltons, a tony enclave of just 28 houses in London’s affluent Kensington neighborhood, sold in December for £40 million (US$55.57 million), according to ...
Using Mechanical Turk, the Stanford Literary Lab maps Victorian London’s fear, love, and everything in between. 19th-century British novelists like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and William Thackeray ...
In September 1777, Samuel Johnson declared to his friend James Boswell, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." Johnson actually was referring to his hectic social calendar, but he did ...
The secret tales of Victorian London have been described as an 'absolute gift' for the creator of Peaky Blinders IN the 1800s Londoners had to contend with two very different criminal gangs — a group ...
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