“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Line of Duty star Stephen Graham took on the tough role for new drama A Thousand Blows and says training for it made him the ...

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 ...

Columbia Road Flower Market is a bustling botanical paradise in London’s East End. It takes place each Sunday, when market traders line the narrow Victorian street selling flowers, houseplants ...

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 ...