Top movies about London!
Tony McMahon looks at movies about London ranging from Alfred Hitchcock to Stanley Kubrick and the Ealing Comedies for the 1940s and 1950s
Tony McMahon looks at movies about London ranging from Alfred Hitchcock to Stanley Kubrick and the Ealing Comedies for the 1940s and 1950s
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
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
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
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
The London mob has a deserved reputation for violence and has lynched several politicians over the centuries
Priests and prostitutes seemed to go hand in hand (and more besides) in medieval Southwark as men of the cloth met women of the night
People either hate or love London street performers but they have been around for hundreds of years and won’t disappear any time soon
In the year 1212 London Bridge burned down and according to contemporary accounts it may have claimed the lives of over three thousand people