London stories
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London’s Brutalist buildings
Love or loathe it, London is home to many concrete icons built in this striking architectural style
London’s stars of the stage & screen
The actors, singers, dancers and entertainers who’ve taken the city by storm
The Forty Elephants: South London’s supreme shoplifters
How an all-women clan of career criminals hounded West End department stores
Alvin Langdon Coburn’s ethereal photographs of London
A foggy, shadowy view of the capital in 1909
Occupy London: Looking back at the 2011 protests
In the wake of the global financial crisis, anti-capitalist protesters set up a camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral
Portraits of London’s close-knit queer club scenes
Liz Johnson Artur captured community, individuality and joy on and around the dance floor
The Huguenots in London
These French refugees worked silk in Spitalfields and silver in Soho, weaving a lasting legacy
Fast food & feasts: Where did Tudor Londoners eat out?
Meat pies, alehouse snacks and boiled sheep’s feet sold on the streets
Inside St Paul’s Cathedral
Tiptoe through these tranquil photographs from the early 1900s
Photographing London after dark
When the sun set, Alan Delaney took out his camera, capturing a ghostly city marked by shadow
Who was publicly executed in London?
Thirteen tales of the cooks, rebels, bankers and king who died in front of a watching crowd
Malorie Blackman’s books shaped Britain’s youth
The south-east Londoner writes diverse fictional worlds for young people of all ages
Zadie Smith: Writing north-west London
The author of books like White Teeth and The Fraud uses the north-west suburbs as her canvas
Mapping London’s execution landscape
In central London, you’re never further than 5km from a known site of execution
The outdoor theatres of Tudor London
Late 16th-century London was Shakespeare’s playground, where theatre thrived on open-air stages
