Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, this stone column reaches a height of 202 feet, exactly 202 feet from the ...

From ’pea soupers’ to mists rolling over the Thames, fog was quite a big feature of fast-industrialising Victorian London. So it makes sense that it wends its ...

Bernardine Evaristo, whose “Girl, Woman, Other” won the Booker Prize, invites readers into London, a city whose rich literary landscape is “for everyone, not just the privileged few.” ...

Ironmongers’ Hall in London EC2 — home of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers — is one of the Great Twelve City Livery ...

Peace may have been declared 80 years ago but reminders of the war remain across London.

5. Tudor London Much of the Tudor City was built of wood. Hence, what still survived by 1666 was almost entirely eradicated in the Great Fire.

Home Architecture Stationers’ Hall, one of London's best-kept secrets: 'The observant pedestrian might briefly glimpse it through an archway. Most pass by oblivious' The home of the Worshipful Company ...

The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed the heart of England's capital city. Christopher Wren led the charge for a new vision of London.

The City of London’s great and good descended on M Restaurant as a record £161,000 was raised at the annual School of Hard Knocks long lunch.

The Great Smog of 1952 led to the creation of Britain's Clean Air Act in 1956, the world's first nationwide law regulating air pollution.

City Hall said all of London still exceeded the World Health Organization's guidelines for air quality, and more than half of deaths attributable to air pollution were in outer London.

The Great Fire of London in 1666, which razed 436 acres of the mostly-timber city and lasted for four days, was so devastating it secured its place in the history books.