Experts have charted the now-dismantled London tramway network, which ceased operation in 1952, and the results are ...

The Ben Evans department store was famous for its flamboyant architecture and for the astonishing range of goods it stocked ...

This fall brings new fiction from CanLit stalwarts and international heavy-hitters, along with plenty of fiction that ...

Croydon Airport, near London, broke records as it opened up commercial air travel to and from Europe. But after a lifetime of ...

Harry Beck, who’d designed the iconic “circuit board” London Underground map, was commissioned to ... Standard” newspaper described her, in “Victorian period” clothes, took her first ...

Becoming a butler requires someone to buy into the same fantasy as their employers – that their job is a calling, the ...

As early as the 1940s the American novelist Henry Miller, returning from his European exile, characterised the US as an “air-conditioned nightmare”. It’s a nightmare we are now trapped in, further ...

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2024 release.Images and links from a variety of ...

A new tunnel is being built under the Thames, linking Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula in east London. Set to open in 2025 ... of major regeneration on both sides of the river. The Victorian-era ...

Sure, you can hit Harrods. But the British capital also has small specialized shops, some centuries old and still crafting ...