says Museum of London curator Beverley Cook. By the 1850s, London was the largest city on the planet, with a rapidly growing population that had already topped 2.5 million - but it was struggling ...

However, the trend of more permanent burial, much of it within city limits, meant cemeteries began to fill up. By the 1850s, London's inner-city cemeteries were in an appalling state. This was ...

The Green Ground was a post-medieval graveyard on Portugal Street used by the Parish of St Clement Danes (western central London) from 1638. It was notorious for its overcrowded and unsanitary ...

A study reveals that its rapid construction was due to the use of a standardized screw thread. New research has solved the ...

In an office wing of the Natural History Museum in London, two researchers slide open a plain storage cupboard door to reveal a hidden treasure: shelves of fossilised corals, up to 30 million years ...

London's Great Exhibition of 1851 attracted some ... The design competition for what would become the Crystal Palace was launched in March 1850, with a deadline four weeks later, and the actual ...

English Heritage is the charity that administers over 400 of England’s historic sites, spread right across the country and ...

London is notorious for attracting a holiday ... Claridge's has been around since the 1850s, maintaining its status as an icon and a must-visit, especially during the holidays.

From the vibrant urban centres of Paris and London to the tranquil beauty of the Norman and Welsh coastlines, we take a look ...

Book a Cotswolds tour from London here. The Cotswolds villages are to England what ... Although nearly all of the church was ...

Ellis & Co. are proud of their 150-year history since opening their first office in Swiss Cottage, North-West London, in 1850 ...

It was only in the 1850s that chess again emerged as a subject ... In 1851, the first international chess tournament was organised in London. It coincided with the Great Exhibition of 1851 ...