Time Present and Time Past

The main road running through the City of London, from Newgate in the west to Aldgate in the east, having passed through the Ward of  Farrin...

Britain's industrial revolution in the 19th Century went hand in hand with the popularisation of science. Where, a century earlier, a kn...

Immediately to the east of  Bread Street Ward  lies Cordwainer Street Ward, so-named for the cordwainers who worked here throughout the Midd...

In an  earlier blog-post , I followed in the footsteps of an imagined visitor to London from the west, entering the city through Newgate (ha...

Since the time of the Renaissance, ancient Rome has frequently been presented as a supremely rational society, informed by philosophy and lo...

For those of us living in the United Kingdom, a current exhibition at the British Museum, and a recent three-part television documentary, ha...

It is one thing to take an interest in history, quite another to immerse oneself in primary sources: the letters; diaries; administrative do...