The chances are that we will never know the real identity of Jack the Ripper, the serial killer who terrified the streets of Victorian London in the late nineteenth century. Speculation over... Read more
The Great Plague killed almost 25 percent of the population of London between 1665 and 1666. Now, researchers have confirmed the bacterium which causes the bubonic plague: Yersinia pestis, w... Read more
A new study has thrown into question the widely held belief that the Romans carried out acts of cold, brutal infanticide. The presence of the bones of tiny children in Roman cemeteries aroun... Read more
Thirty-five years ago, in the summer of 1981, Britain’s streets were ravaged by violence and vandalism. Beginning with the infamous Brixton Riot in April, a wave of unrest spread to ot... Read more
Archaeological excavations at Plantation Place in London, England, have exposed the remains of a previously unknown fort that researchers believe was the Romans’ answer to the 60 CE –... Read more
Archaeologists conducting fieldwork ahead of the construction of a new office development have come across an ornate Roman-era fresco six meters below ground. Museum of London Archaeology (M... Read more
A deadly smog descended over London on 5th December 1952, which over the course of the next five days would be responsible for thousands of deaths. Initially, the fog that blanketed the city... Read more
On Wednesday evening transport in London was thrown into chaos by tube strikes which shut down the whole London Underground network. Organised by four unions, Aslef, the Rail and Maritime Un... Read more
Museum of London researchers have dug up a cow skull probably dating to the eighteenth century, the remains of two people who lived in Roman Britain, and some artefacts from the nineteenth c... Read more
On 30th March, 1840, George Brummell died in an asylum in Caen, France. Popularly known as Beau Brummell, he had once been the darling of London, the archetypal dandy responsible for definin... Read more