Piccadilly Circus is one of London’s best-known landmarks, recognised today for its bright advertising screens, busy streets and central location.  But its story begins far more modestly than that. The name Piccadilly comes from “piccadills,” the stiff, frilled...

Soho has always been the kind of London neighbourhood where new ideas turn up early and tucked away on one of its most historic streets about 100 years ago, a quiet technological revolution began. In the mid-1920s, John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor best known as...