London stories

The prize catch of London’s fish trade, home to a unique culture and generations of working history

From the 1970s to the 1990s, Londoners faced the repeated threat of Irish republican bombings

Her London-based label brings an approach to design that is brainy, beautiful and rooted in Blackness

The city’s short-lived and long-forgotten waterways

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