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Royalty & Aristocracy
Royalty & Aristocracy

Why Charles I was executed

A tale of religion and Parliament which ends abruptly in 1649

Art & Design
Art & Design

The candid street photography of Margaret Monck

Capturing the energy of 1930s Londoners

Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism

Christabel Pankhurst: Suffragette leader

An inspiring leader whose radical tactics intensified women’s fight for the vote

Royalty & Aristocracy
Royalty & Aristocracy

The murder of Thomas Becket

An event that shocked medieval Europe – and a cult that's lasted centuries

Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism

Kitty Marion: Actor & Suffragette

Battling for the vote with fire and hunger strikes

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

How Mary Quant revolutionised 1960s fashion

This champion of super short hemlines influenced how a generation dressed

Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism

Millicent Fawcett: Suffragist, not Suffragette

Meet a leader of the law-abiding votes for women campaign

Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism

Who was the Suffragette Emily Davison?

After running onto a racecourse, this votes for women campaigner lost her life for the cause

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

Inside the Big Biba department store

Open for just two years, the 1970s flagship shop for this fashion label was a shopper’s paradise

Royalty & Aristocracy
Royalty & Aristocracy

Princess Diana: A London look

The 'people’s princess' was a 20th-century celebrity whose image was tightly linked to her hometown

Architecture & Home
Architecture & Home

The Festival of Britain 1951

A nation-wide event with London at its heart, the Festival aimed to boost Britain’s post-war blues

Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation

The history of London's Newgate Prison

London’s longest-running prison was home to high-profile criminals, common thieves and the condemned

Publishing & Media
Publishing & Media

Who was Charles Dickens?

19th-century London’s most celebrated writer gave us Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol

Art & Design
Art & Design

Thomas Rowlandson’s satirical London drawings

Laughing at life in the 18th and 19th century

Art & Design
Art & Design

Wenceslaus Hollar’s etchings of fashion & fire

A 17th-century recorder of women’s clothes and London's skyline

Royalty & Aristocracy
Royalty & Aristocracy

Oliver Cromwell: The man who could have been king

Cromwell’s victories in the Civil Wars took him to the very top

Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters

Unearthing the Roman dead

Roman burials have been found in London for centuries

Art & Design
Art & Design

Graham Sutherland’s eerie Blitz drawings

This south London-born artist recorded the carnage of the Second World War