Is there any other part of London that packs so much history into so small a space? The few square metres on which the statue of Charles 1 stands in Trafalgar Square is chiefly known today as the central point of London from which all distances are measured. It is also the oldest surviving reminder […]
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The other Crystal Palace – in Victoria Street


Westminster Palace Hotel (left) and Royal Acquarium (right) Imperial Theatre Few London scenes have changed as little as Parliament Square with the Commons and Westminster Abbey preserved in aspic. But looking west from the abbey towards Victoria Street (above, left) […]
The Slavery Map of London


Georgian London, as Dan Cruickshank tells us, was partly constructed from the ill-gotten gains of the sex industry. But a shameful amount of the rest was built from the profits of the slave trade as can be seen on the slavery map of London compiled by researchers at University College, London (above). For some years […]