London has always been a hub for photography. The very first photo of London was taken in 1839, only a matter of weeks after the French government revealed the secrets of daguerreotype photography in ...

Two Victorian townhouses in London are going viral after a TikTok revealed they are hollow façades built to hide a 19th-century railway cutting beneath the street.

Fake health news can feel like an epidemic these days, but it was also rampant during the Victorian era, when bodily ailments were often a matter of life-or death. But unlike the questionable remedies ...

Whether you’re a Victorian history nerd or just captivated by the period setting of Miss Scarlet and The Duke, you’ll want to take a deeper look at everyday life in 1882 London—when dubious medicines ...

This former Victorian water tower in the London borough of Lambeth has been turned into an architecturally impressive single-family home. The transformation of the Grade II-listed structure, built in ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Newnham-Davis is little known today but, after serving in ...

Hand-painted art nouveau tiles and a mahogany payment kiosk feature in this London former butcher’s shop, which hit the market this month. The north London home has an ornate 1900s interior from its ...