The perils of being LGBT in Bridgerton era London
LGBT life in London during the Bridgerton era was surprisingly open but dangerous as a court case from the time reveals
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The mysterious death of Christopher Marlowe
The death of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe remains a mystery – was he murdered or was his death faked? Tony McMahon investigates
The great London tornado of 1091
In the year 1091 a huge tornado hit the city of London tearing down its famous bridge as Tony McMahon discovers
The missing head of Oliver Cromwell
Tony McMahon investigates the disappearance of the head of Oliver Cromwell and the various places it appears to have turned up
Galvanism – Frankenstein science and the dead!
Galvanism was a new science that brought the dead back to life – seemingly – and inspired the novel Frankenstein
Tragedy as Jews expelled from England
This is a curious and terrible story I heard about years ago and found again in an old book on London history dating from the 1870s in my library. The story goes that when King Edward I of England expelled all the Jewish people from his kingdom, one ship captain deliberately murdered a group of…
Prisoners infect judges with typhus – jail fever!
In 1750 three judges busily sentencing some criminals to death caught jail fever off them – and died of typhus a little while later
The London of the Frankenstein Chronicles
If you’ve watched the Netflix horror series The Frankenstein Chronicles you might be wondering what part of London were all those sordid and foul alley ways and run down houses? Well, it might surprise you to know that it was a district very close to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. I’m a latecomer to The…
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
Politicians lynched by the London mob
The London mob has a deserved reputation for violence and has lynched several politicians over the centuries