London stories
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William Hogarth painted London behaving badly
The artist’s wildly popular pictures from the 1700s show a rowdy version of urban life
Lost London buildings by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
London’s buildings were this artist’s speciality in the 1800s, letting us see landmarks lost to time
Labrum tells West African stories through fashion
A modern menswear brand celebrating migration and movement
A thousand years of Billingsgate Market
The prize catch of London’s fish trade, home to a unique culture and generations of working history
A timeline of IRA attacks in London
From the 1970s to the 1990s, Londoners faced the repeated threat of Irish republican bombings
Grace Wales Bonner: Tailoring the future of fashion
Her London-based label brings an approach to design that is brainy, beautiful and rooted in Blackness
Borough Market: London's oldest food-trading hub
Borough Market has drawn food enthusiasts to its stalls for around a thousand years
Tracking down London’s Roman roads
The Romans brought a road revolution to Britain that’s still tangible in the capital today
Picture Post believed in the power of photography
This London-based magazine pioneered photojournalism in the mid-20th century
London through the eyes of Wolfgang Suschitzky
The grit and glamour of life in the mid-20th century, captured by one of the era’s key photographers
Holborn Viaduct: The City’s bright red bridge
This ornate Victorian viaduct connects Holborn with the City of London
The Cato Street Conspiracy: A failed revolution
This 1820 plot to kill the cabinet ended at the Newgate Prison gallows
Strolling along Sutton High Street
A charming photographic record of a middle-class London suburb in the 1930s
