London is an economic powerhouse and it has been since the 16th century. Here is the history of London as a business hub.

In their satirical history of the United Kingdom, “1066 And All That”, the authors W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman cast the ...

Worrywarts in the construction industry fret that he will struggle. Sceptics say the government should take things more ...

This very short cobbled passage next to Croydon's ancient market is also one of the few survivors of the original medieval ...

30 January marks a grim date in the annals of London history ... For the past half century, The King's Army, a royalist branch of the English Civil War Society, has commemorated what they call ...

Smithfield remained pretty squalid through to the 19th century. The great British author Charles Dickens described it, for example, as a center of “filth and mire,” referencing the market in ...

Private equity chief spends millions on 18th century society portraits by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough ...