Blogs-And-Stories

Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure

Collecting cash at Shakespeare’s plays

Tudor and Stuart theatres may have relied on these single-use money pots

London Places
London Places

A history of St Paul’s Cathedral

London’s symbol of survival

Architecture & Home
Architecture & Home

London’s Tudor & Stuart buildings

Survivors of the Great Fire of London and buildings that rose from the ashes

Immigration & Identity
Immigration & Identity

The Huguenots in London

These French refugees worked silk in Spitalfields and silver in Soho, weaving a lasting legacy

London Places
London Places

The Monument to the Great Fire of London

A permanent, towering reminder of the 1666 disaster

War & Weapons
War & Weapons

The Hounslow sword factory

A sword-making centre in the mid-1600s