What was the secretive Kit-Cat club?
The Kit-Cat Club began as a dangerous secret society out to overthrow the king but evolved into a harmless dinner party club for rich gentlemen
May 2018
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Londoners riot at the building of Somerset House
Edward Seymour built the original Tudor palace of Somerset House and caused riots in London by tearing down other people’s houses as Tony McMahon discovers
The gory history of Temple Bar
Temple Bar used to be the entry from Westminster to the City of London and on the top of it were severed heads of those executed for treason
Tsar Peter the Great trashes a London home
Peter the Great spent time in London staying at the house of the diarist John Evelyn but unfortunately the tsar and his friends trashed the house
Politicians lynched by the London mob
The London mob has a deserved reputation for violence and has lynched several politicians over the centuries