The shirt collar that Dickens was wearing when he suffered a fatal stroke in 1870 has been acquired by London's Charles Dickens Museum. "Death in one of the suddenest and startling forms has just ...

Running until Saturday, Jewish Book Week at Kings Place has a programme packed full of Jewish authors and speakers, covering ...

The Boar's Head Ceremony started out as a peppercorn rent payment/meaty thank you from the butchers of the City of London, ...

Johnston had adapted his roundel to services beyond the London Underground from the mid-1920s. The evolution continued in the ...

Outlets of the wizarding persuasion have been conjured up all over central London in recent times — but from this autumn, ...

A 'new' London Overground line for West London has moved a step closer, now a funding deal has been agreed. The line, ...

The weekend — organised by Londoner Buses, which lays on various sightseeing tours — works slightly differently on each day: ...

St Patrick's Day isn't a bank holiday in England but you could easily be mistaken for thinking it was — given the amount of partying that goes on in London alone. 17 March is the day thousands of ...

Charles Dickens delighted in peculiar names, which often reflect their owner's characteristics, like Mr Bumble or Thomas Gradgrind. Here are some of our favourites, drawing on one character from each ...

I'd always been aware of Ruth Ellis' story and I loved the 1985 film Dance With A Stranger, but had no special interest beyond that. And then one day, many years later, I was sitting and musing about ...

The free browser game presents you with a map of London and a station name. Your task is to drop a pin in the map, as close as possible to where you think that station is. The Tube lines and stations ...

Being drawn to the electric blue badge of light glowing phosphorescent amid the other meeker brews — and then the gobful of American hops jostling for attention in the fizz of the branded glass. It ...