London stories
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A Little Italy in London
Clerkenwell and Soho were once the centres of London’s Italian community
Backstage at the London Palladium, 1956
A peek behind the curtain of the world-famous West End theatre
Baynard’s Castle: A lost riverside landmark
London’s Norman fortress that morphed into a Tudor palace
Snapshots of noughties London
Remember post-millennium London through the eyes of Paul Baldesare
When did London get electricity?
Between 1901 and 1910, London began to find its spark
The jobs that made London’s docks run
London’s port relied on dock workers doing an array of back-breaking and highly skilled jobs
The punishing past of London’s prisons
A list of the most notorious and historic prisons in the city
Thomas Barnardo’s crusade against child poverty
The suffering children of London’s East End motivated Barnardo’s tireless social work
Locket portraits of London’s container shipping crews
Artist Hilary Powell illuminates the invisible lives of the international shipping industry
Photographing hidden worlds on the banks of the Thames
Portraits of the barren underbelly of London’s bridges, wharfs and piers
Flooded London
Before the Thames Barrier, flooding in London was regularly destructive and often deadly
Riz Ahmed: Actor, rapper, north-west Londoner
The Wembley-born star brings London and his life story into his work
The Rhinebeck Panorama: A game-changing view
Found in a barrel in 1941, this vast panorama shows the awesome spread of London in 1806
