Walking through Lockdown London with a visor!
In early June 2020, I broke the Coronavirus lockdown and walked through the centre of London wearing a face visor to see how the city had changed
London history
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London hated the French long before Brexit
Xenophobia in London is nothing new as Londoners hated the French two hundred years ago as Tony McMahon discovers
The urban gang that terrorised Georgian London!
The Black Boy Alley gang terrorised Georgian London but were eventually executed en masse at Tyburn
Victorian slang for beginners!
If you would like to talk like a Victorian Londoner is a Charles Dickens novel then read this
Great Plague of London in 1665
London experienced one plague after another under the Tudors and Stuarts culminating in the Great Plague of 1665 in the reign of King Charles II
A horrific day trip to Georgian London!
A day trip to Georgian London could have involved going to see a prisoner put to death or watching a live amputation by a well known surgeon
London plague pits – the locations!
Wherever you go in central London there are plague pits under your feet – literally thousands of skeletons of those who died in a horrific way