A Thousand Blows centres on Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, who arrive in 1880s London and find themselves thrust into the bare-knuckle ...

Londoners had to contend with two very different criminal gangs — a group of East End boxers and another of West End shoplifters. But it was the latter’s fists they feared most. The ...

“In the 1880s and 1890s there was this very vibrant bare-knuckle boxing scene in the East End of London and there was also the emergence of what we now recognise as boxing with boxing gloves and ...

Anyone writing stories set in Victorian London must reckon with its greatest chronicler: Charles Dickens. British ...

Scotland Yard’s Victorian history is a captivating tale ... five female sex workers in London’s East End were raped, murdered, and mutilated. “Crime scene photography comes into its own ...

There is no shortage of work, such as this east London terraced house, for Archmongers, a London practice specialising in residential retrofits: the capital’s streets are lined with Victorian terraces ...

Pie-and-mash eateries are a bit of Cockney culture that has existed since Victorian times ... of the Cockneys who once inhabited the East End of London out into neighbouring Kent and Essex.

London Friends of Yiddish Language reception for the Canadian Yiddish poet Chava Rosenfarb, March 1949, Berner Street, E1 (Courtesy: David Mazower Collection) Around 150,000 Jews migrated to Britain ...