1877: Recruiting Sergeants in Westminster
By the mid-Victorian Age people were beginning to look at recruiting sergeants with fresh eyes
London
A collection of 18 Posts
1892: Tower Bridge, London
At the end of the nineteenth century the gaunt arms of an engineering wonder stretched across the River Thames
Meet me at the Cemetery Gates
Little spaces, profound stories. Roger Luckhurst tells us about London's hidden cemeteries
Victor Grayson, War, Trauma and Politics with Stephen May
Stephen May engages with one of the great mysteries in British political history
1926: Driving a Flock of Sheep through London
In the 1920s the last traces of old Dickensian London faded as the modern city grew at pace
Shakespeare’s Lost Years
Tinker? Tailor? Soldier? Spy? Howard Linskey looks back at the most mysterious phase of Shakespeare's life
The Fire at the Houses of Parliament
In 1834 the home of British politics was destroyed on a dramatic autumnal night
Samuel Johnson and the Perils of Hope
On the anniversary of Johnson's birth, Peter Moore considers a subject that deeply engaged the great writer.
The Most Famous Actress in the Georgian World
On her retirement the television producer Jo Willett set out to write a biography of Sarah Siddons
Is the British Museum Haunted? with Noah Angell
Writer Noah Angell on the ghosts of the British Museum
Walking the Streets of London in the 1660s
Joad R. Wren explains how he found inspiration and truth in Ralph Agas's map of London
