London stories

Love or loathe it, London is home to many concrete icons built in this striking architectural style

The capital of counterculture

Prime cuts from 800 years of trading

The photographers who've captured London's buildings, people and subcultures

From child prodigy to Olympic gold medalist

The city has never looked like this

And showed the complexity of social class in the late 19th century

Countless London stories in black and white

Since the late 1800s, pearlies have donned their button-covered regalia to raise money for charity

Campaigner, community builder, champion of LGBTQ+ rights

Photographing youth and belonging on the capital’s cultural margins

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

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

A 130-tonne whopper of a blockage

The bridge that put a horse ferry out of business

These punk rock trailblazers found inspiration in the city around them

A jaw-dropping stash of lost Tudor and Stuart jewels

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