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Music & Subculture
Music & Subculture

London scenes & subcultures by Dick Scott-Stewart

Photographing youth and belonging on the capital’s cultural margins

London Places
London Places

London’s famous bridges

Bridges have helped Londoners cross the Thames for 2,000 years – here's the best of them

Nature & Environment
Nature & Environment

London’s lost rivers

Over hundreds of years, these rivers have been abandoned or concealed beneath our streets

Nature & Environment
Nature & Environment

The Whitechapel Fatberg

A 130-tonne whopper of a blockage

Architecture & Home
Architecture & Home

Lambeth Bridge

The bridge that put a horse ferry out of business

Music & Subculture
Music & Subculture

How London shaped The Clash

These punk rock trailblazers found inspiration in the city around them

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

The Cheapside Hoard

A jaw-dropping stash of lost Tudor and Stuart jewels

Music & Subculture
Music & Subculture

Through the lens of Charlie Phillips

One of the most talented, but long overlooked, photographers of 20th-century Britain

Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters

The Great Smog of 1952

12,000 people died when a toxic polluted fog descended on London

Architecture & Home
Architecture & Home

The architects who’ve shaped London’s skyline

Where dizzying skyscrapers rub shoulders with historical landmarks

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

Anna Pavlova’s ballet costumes

The clothes, shoes and accessories this ballet superstar wore onstage

Architecture & Home
Architecture & Home

Tower Bridge

A Gothic-style icon – built by the Victorians

Art & Design
Art & Design

Who were the Young British Artists?

How a group of rebellious, mostly London-based artists changed the 1990s art world

Games & Sports
Games & Sports

Harry Kane: The making of England’s number nine

England's all-time top scorer is one of London's sporting heroes

Politics & Society
Politics & Society

London on election day

Take a look back at democracy in action

Music & Subculture
Music & Subculture

Dub in London: Shops, sound systems & legends

In the 1970s and 1980s, London became the centre of Jamaica’s bassier, spacier sound

Royalty & Aristocracy
Royalty & Aristocracy

200 years of royal weddings in London

From Queen Victoria to Prince Harry, royal romances have been loved and loathed by Londoners

Music & Subculture
Music & Subculture

London’s grime stars

The artists who built a scene and took it worldwide