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Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation

The Metropolitan Police on London’s streets

The changing face of law and order

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

Hardy Amies: London’s great tailor & couturier

The Savile Row-based designer had a long career spanning luxurious couture and casual menswear

Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure

Skating through the history of London’s ice rinks

Did you know ice rinks were invented in London? And the earliest version was made from pig fat?

Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism

Emmeline Pankhurst: Suffragette icon

Pankurst’s leadership of the militant votes-for-women campaign made her a feminist hero

Politics & Society
Politics & Society

Guy Fawkes & the Gunpowder Plot

The explosive plan that gave us Bonfire Night

Games & Sports
Games & Sports

London 1948 Olympics: The ‘Austerity Games’

Held in the struggling post-war years, these frugal Games were celebrated as a harmonious success

Health & Disease
Health & Disease

How Florence Nightingale shaped London healthcare

Modern nursing has a lot to thank this 19th-century trailblazer for

Nature & Environment
Nature & Environment

Lost rivers: The Fleet

A vital part of London life since the Romans

Art & Design
Art & Design

John Hargrave: Leader of the Kibbo Kift

Camp out, help others, work for world peace: Hargrave’s youth movement aimed for a better society

War & Weapons
War & Weapons

Boudica: Rebel queen of the Iceni

London burned when this warrior queen challenged the Romans

Nature & Environment
Nature & Environment

How a Neolithic jade axe came to Mortlake

Polished, Italian and left in the Thames

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