Coventry is a city ever evolving. Going back almost a thousand years it's been at the forefront of important industries - ...

Step back in time to a London of contrasts, where opulence met hardship. A new book unveils the city's hidden past through ...

A Victorian philanthropist who campaigned for women’s and children’s rights to health and education has been honoured with a ...

A new essay collection explores how UK cities were shaped in the second half of the 20th century. It’s a tasty mix, but Hugh ...

Celebrating the publication of Journal of a Man Unknown, I am publishing a series of pieces by Gillian Tindall. Today you can read about her quest for Flower & Dean St where the protagonist of her ...

Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative ...

The old Eurotower, once the home for a lively crowd of backpackers. It’s now been repurposed as private student accommodation for the nearby South Bank site along Wandsworth Road. The magnificent ...

History is awesome when you have the right teacher. For my entire childhood, I didn't, and that put History on the back burner for me as a topic of ...

This mid-19th-century Victorian house in London is back on the market some 13 years after the owners bought it from model Kate Moss. “My firm’s association with this beautiful period house goes back ...

Once a notorious slum, this inner city area is now on the brink of a £4 billion transformation that will combine a New York ...

One of London 's famous shopping hubs has been turned into a 'shanty town' after migrants and homeless people set up at least ...