Madame Tussauds London is best known today as a major tourist attraction, but its origins lie in the turbulent political and social history of late eighteenth-century Europe. Long before the museum became associated with celebrities and popular culture, it was shaped...

Long before the Globe Theatre became synonymous with William Shakespeare, his plays first found life in Shoreditch. In the late 16th century, this noisy, unruly suburb beyond London’s city walls was home to The Theatre, the playhouse that helped shape Shakespeare into...

While the Beatles’ story begins in Liverpool where they grew up, it was London where Beatlemania ignited and propelled the group into becoming global icons. That transformation started in the early 1960s. The Beatles made frequent trips south to London, often staying...

Tucked away on Albemarle Street in the genteel heart of Mayfair, Brown's Hotel doesn't shout for attention, it simply expects it. And really, it can afford to. Since opening its doors in 1837, Brown's has been quietly collecting legends, literary giants, royalty, and...

Rising above Trafalgar Square, Nelson's Column is one of London's most familiar and enduring monuments. It was built to honour Admiral Horatio Nelson, the naval commander who secured Britain's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, a turning point in the...

Step through the doors of Rules on Maiden Lane in Covent Garden and you're stepping into over two centuries of London's culinary and cultural history. Founded in 1798 by Thomas Rule as a humble oyster bar, Rules has the distinction of being London's oldest surviving...

Image By Jim Linwood from London - Statue Of The River God / Old Father Thames, Terrace Gardens, Richmond - London., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33659126.Who is Old Father Thames? Old Father London is a city imagined as an elder—creased...

The humble Christmas Tree which has brought delight to many a happy household, arrived in Britain in the late 18th century, and it’s the Royal Family that we’ve got to thank. Up till then the tradition over here had been just to decorate homes and churches with...

London is happily blessed with many historic pubs, all of which like to boast they are the oldest and have the most interesting past. But the pub that probably just gets my vote, is the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street. It looks like a pub from another age,...