One of the greatest unsolved English murder cases is The Merstham Tunnel Mystery that happened in 1905. The body of 22-year-old Mary Sophia Money, 22, was found in a railway tunnel on the South-Eastern Railway line south of London. Mary was a bookkeeper employed at a dairy in Lavender Hill where she lived with the…
In 1820, a group of English radical activists plotted to kill the entire British government while they were sat down to dinner in central London. The Cato Street Conspiracy – so-called from the place where they met to plot – was uncovered and the ringleaders executed in a public and grisly manner. One of those…
Beneath what is now the London School of Economics lies the remains of a “molly house” – a gay bar basically – once located in the long demolished warren of streets that made up Clare Market. The White Swan pub was on the corner of Vere Street, which you can no longer find. This drinking…
LGBT life in London during the Bridgerton era was surprisingly open but dangerous as a court case from the time reveals
Tony McMahon investigates the disappearance of the head of Oliver Cromwell and the various places it appears to have turned up
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
The London mob has a deserved reputation for violence and has lynched several politicians over the centuries
A day trip to Georgian London could have involved going to see a prisoner put to death or watching a live amputation by a well known surgeon
London hangings and other forms of execution took place in different parts of London as Tony McMahon discovers looking back over the centuries
Ten tantalising facts you may not have known about one of London’s biggest public squares, Lincoln’s Inn Fields near Holborn
