London stories

Pleasure boating and bug hunting

Borough Market has drawn food enthusiasts to its stalls for around a thousand years

The Romans brought a road revolution to Britain that’s still tangible in the capital today

This London-based magazine pioneered photojournalism in the mid-20th century

An inland city with a taste for the sea

Trade, tunnels – and a very big explosion

The grit and glamour of life in the mid-20th century, captured by one of the era’s key photographers

This ornate Victorian viaduct connects Holborn with the City of London

This 1820 plot to kill the cabinet ended at the Newgate Prison gallows

A charming photographic record of a middle-class London suburb in the 1930s

The man who lived on Parliament Square for almost a decade

Highwaymen hangouts, Thameside landmarks – and a local co-owned by Ian McKellen

Churning out the facts about the city’s favourite frozen treat

The world’s most famous recording studio – and London’s favourite zebra crossing

The rule of William the Conqueror and his descendants brought more than castles

How 1970s archaeologists recorded the remains of 234 people buried nearly 1,000 years ago

With Victorian baths and Olympic arenas, Londoners can take a dip in pools built across three centuries

Packed days at the lido have been a London summer staple for nearly 100 years