Designed by James Wyatt (who died in 1813 from an overturned carriage) and opened on London's Oxford Street on 1772, The Pantheon featured a rotunda which was
The London Babymoon at One Aldwych comes packed with a Hotel Credit, daily Breakfast, and Early Check-in and Late Check-out.
As Prospect Place at Battersea Power Station opens its doors, we discover the design by Gehry Partners
World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human history.
Aerial photographer Jason Hawkes has spent more time in the skies above London than wandering the capital’s streets.
A charming picture of two little boys and a girl on the south bank of the Thames where the Millenium Bridge now stands - St Paul's can be seen across the river, shrouded in mist.
GRACE Kumar was just 19 when she was fatally stabbed in Nottingham. The university student was one of three victims who were horrifically killed on June 13, 2023. Who was Nottingham attack victim G…
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This gallery's Christmas commission is certainly non-traditional. Get a load of these Tate Britain slugs. What on earth does it mean?
Glorious history of London and The Great Britain. See rare photos of London city history and culture. London is a leading global city, in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism, and transport.It is one of the world's leading financial centresand has the fifth-or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world.
f you wander through London this autumn, you may be stopped in your tracks by one of several expansive translucent red sculptures around town...
Blending softly into the landscape, this sturdy retreat is defined by its thick drystone walls
During WWII, 150,000+ people sought shelter in London's Tube stations each night. Over time, the various stations developed their own mini-governments.
A historic live/work space rich with character
D 1570. An Elephant and Castle platform crowded with shelterers some resting against the stationary London Transport train 11 November 1940.
LAURA WOODS couldn’t resist taking a cheeky swipe at new Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou when the two met at Wimbledon yesterday. The Spurs gaffer has been enjoying the London sports scene since …
Pep Guardiola’s side go two points clear at the summit with lunchtime stroll in Craven Cottage sunshine
A dome is a hemispherical structure usually forming a ceiling or roof. Dome structures made of various materials have been used throughout history by several different civilizations. In the ancient Near East domes were made as tombs of solid mounds. The Inuit in the Arctic created their igloos from
The ultimate list of the best hotels in London, from central london hotels landmarks to hip Shoreditch hangouts, with unbiased hotel reviews.
Slide photographs of London in 1960 and 1961 from Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection
Some of the only colour pictures taken in London during the Blitz are due to go on display at the Imperial War museum from tomorrow. | ITV News London
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau Just some shops that sell books that I think are worth crossing oceans for... 1. Libreria Alta Acqua, Venice, Italy via via
I come from a heavily Anglicised Scottish family. My mother is from Sussex. Although born in Scotland, my late dad was educated in Yorkshire and Cambridge and lived in England until he was in his l…
THE QUEEN was furious with Princess Diana for choosing to debut her new hairstyle at the State Opening of Parliament in 1984, according to an unearthed documentary.
Nazi Leader Gertrud Scholtz-Klink Came To Teach Prunella Stack In London
At Darjeeling Express in Soho, Asma Khan makes food inspired by her Calcutta childhood, with a kitchen full of second daughters who have no prior culinary experience.
This is the second part looking at a history of the Elephant and Castle area of south London. To read the first instalment please click here The Elephant at war Being a major transport hub with a l…
Shoreditch is part of Hackney in the north of the city where East London begins. The wheel of history keeps turning. The sociological revival of this area may well be striking and spine-tingling but is not without some heartbreak and nostalgia…
Some of the world’s intelligence agencies reside in buildings that can appear starkly utilitarian, clean and futuristic, or even frightening and alienating. But they all build their headquarters to invoke their sense of secrecy.
Introducing the final two fragrances in the Penhaligon’s Anthology Collection; a lush woody citrus Esprit du Roi created by master perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour and the shimmering chypre Eau Sans Pareil, created by Beverley Bayne.
The air raids by German Luftwaffe planes on English cities and towns in 1940 and 1941 — attacks known collectively and famously as The Blitz — were terrifying, but they failed in their key aims: namely, to demoralize the British people, and to destroy the UK’s war economy. London, not surprisingly, suffered the brunt of the Blitz: More than a million London houses were ruined or badly damaged, and more than 20,000 civilians were killed in the city alone. (Roughly 40,000 civilians were killed in the whole of England.) These amazing color photographs were taken by LIFE photographers in London, captured the City after Air Raid attacks during World War II. A view of London in 1940, with damage from German bombing raids. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) Workers clear debris from the lot where a home once stood, London, 1940. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) Damage in London during The Blitz, 1940. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) Britons work a "victory garden" in the midst of World War II, 1940. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) A London bus rests in a massive crater left by a German bomb, 1940. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) A London building ablaze during the Blitz, 1940. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) London smolders, 1940. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) A view of London after a German air raid, 1940. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) A man sits on a park bench in London, reading a book, 1940; a moored "barrage balloon" is visible in the background, while a second one soars high in the distance. (Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) A London Civil Defense Rescue crew helps remove injured and dead civilians from destroyed buildings, London, 1940. (Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) London, 1940. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) Life goes on in London, despite the destruction caused by German air raids, 1941. (Frank Scherschel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) Respite, Hyde Park, 1944. (Frank Scherschel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) Outside of London during World War II, 1940s. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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Woman Of The Civil Defence Knitting At The Entrance Of An Air Raid Shelter In London On 1939
Heatherwick Studio’s new glasshouse is a floral haven in West Sussex's Woolbeding Gardens
London in the 1920s changed its mood. The lifting of war time restrictions in the early 1920s created new sorts of night-life in the West End. Entrepreneurs opened clubs, restaurants and dance halls to cater for the new crazes: jazz and dancing. The capital began to feel less traditional and more modern. 'Wireless' radio was the technological marvel of the decade. As London lightened up at its centre, so it began to spread at its edges. Electric railways opened up new suburbs for commuting. Local councils and private house builders both redoubled their efforts to build new estates on green-field sites in outer London. Those Londoners who could afford it moved out of the unhealthy inner city. Construction workers taking lunch break on the edges of the building they're working on, London, 1929. Boys boxing barefoot while their friends look on, London, 1920. Fog encases workers at Ludgate Circus, London, November 1922. It was reported that Londoners compared the effects of winter fogs to being blind as they could often only see a few yards ahead. Throgmorton St, c.1920. Thames and Tower Bridge in London, c.1920s. Twenties glamour, London, 1925. In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a bathing suit and ate pizza in large groups to annoy men. Customer complaint, 1922. Two women having a right old laugh on a delivery bike in 1927. London 1925. The lights of Piccadilly Circus, just around the corner, London, 1928. British Museum tube station, 1921. Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Rd, c.1920. Wembley, 1923, West Ham fans at the turnstiles. London heatwave, c.1920s. An ice cream vendor and his customers on the streets of London, c.1920s. The gentleman plays the concertina, with the lady perhaps collecting money, or even singing, London, 1920s. Photographer over Fleet Street, December 1929. Covent Garden market traders preparing for business in the 1920s outside Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Petticoat Lane market, c.1920s. London Underground in the 1920s. Buses line up to take racegoers to the Epsom Derby near Morden Underground Station, c.1920. In the 1920s and 1930s, sheep were routinely introduced into London parks to keep the grass under control and reduce mowing costs. Tram emerging from the Kingsway Tunnel, c.1920. Ludgate Hill, London, c.1920. Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Rd, c.1920. Clapham South underground Station, 1926. A commuter roller skates to work during the General Strike, 1926. The engineer is attaching the main telephone cable to a new support wire, suspended between Maddox Street and Conduit Street in Mayfair, London, c.1920s. Street traffic on London Bridge, 1927. Seven Sisters Road, 1922. Tower Bridge, c.1920s. An underground train being transported on wheels through the streets of London, 1926. A worker inside Big Ben, London, 1920. Bank of England Watchman, London, 1925. King's Cross Station, 1927. Taylor's Pie House, c.1920s. Regent Street, c.1920s. Covent Garden market, 1920. A young visitor and her toy elephant finds that the elephant house at London Zoo is closed for their winter holidays.
Why have some women historians been so critical about a recent considerable feminist achievement? It is a question that has preoccupied me over the last few weeks as I have
Though so many of us are not frequenting bars right now, the annual World’s 50 Best Bars announcements were made digitally this week and London’s prestigious Connaught Bar took the top spot—a…
Glorious history of London and The Great Britain. See rare photos of London city history and culture. London is a leading global city, in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism, and transport.It is one of the world's leading financial centresand has the fifth-or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world.
Wooden writing tablets found deeply buried in waterlogged ground near St Paul’s Cathedral
