Marks carved into the wall of a medieval church that were thought to deter evil spirits have been found along the path of the HS2 railway.
The British Library has released a huge archive of nearly 18,000 maps that have been digitised and are available for free – with no copyright restrictions.
You’d never guess it from the outside, but an old building in the former military arsenal at Woolwich contains the world’s largest repository of magazines.
The huge numbers of dead bodies that were removed from a gravesite behind Euston station to clear it for HS2 are to be reburied at Brookwood Cemetery, in Surrey.
If you wander down a City street, you might spy a grand statue and a modern maypole, next to a giant cheese grater.
When building something big, it usually involves bringing in the archaeologists to check the land first, and there’s not much bigger than HS2 for historical discoveries.
A grand Victorian drinking fountain sits next to St Paul’s Cathedral, but it wasn’t there originally and only ended up there due to WW2.
Deep underneath Charing Cross station is a small car park, and on Saturdays it’s filled with men buying and selling coins, medals, stamps, and ephemera.
Imagine if you will in the era of steam locomotives, trains being pulled along by horses, walking on conveyor belts.
Two disused tube stations that have never been part of the disused tube station tours ware to be part of a new series of virtual video tours from the London Transport Museum.
A bland and unremarkable office block in Southwark has under a pile of grime a rather odd memorial.
The famous journalist’s church on Fleet Street also contains a museum of over 2,000 years of London history in its crypt.
A series of huge vaulted cellars under a demolished mansion house just to the north of Heathrow Airport are to be opened up to the public as part of plans to improve the parklands around them.
There’s an opportunity to have your name on a Spitfire plane, or the Skynet satellite, or a jar of sand.
Just down the road from the British Museum can be found the former home of Augustus Charles Pugin and his architect son Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin – best known for decorating the Houses of Parliament.
In 1854, a new railway station opened in London, but only the Royal Family was allowed to use it — this was Queen Victoria’s private railway station.
Down a side street in the corner of a shabby entrance to a car park can be found a grand coat of arms. What’s that doing here?
The diaries of Georgian Londoners have long suggested the city was a hotbed of vice and sex, but its becoming clearer just how widespread sexual diseases had become.
One of the more curious stories that regularly crops up about the University of London’s Senate House is that it was saved from being bombed by Hitler who wanted to use it as a new headquarters for his Nazi government in the UK.
In the heart of Charlton village is a drinking fountain that arrived a year after the event it commemorates.
The Brunel Museum, situated above Brunel’s famous under-river tunnel has announced plans for a major expansion and revamp of the buildings.
The Museum of London has created a new page on their website, bringing together 26 short videos all about London fashion.
How many people in Richmond Park looking at that famous protected view of St Paul’s Cathedral realise they are standing on an ancient burial mound?
The ferry that once took people across the Mersey has ended up with a very sad retirement, rusting away on the banks of the Thames.
