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…
We think of gangs as a modern day evil but Georgian London had its urban gangs like the Black Boy Alley crew as Tony McMahon discovers
Tony McMahon teaches you London Victorian slang so you could learn how to survive in the London of Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria
Here’s a picture of the Brick Lane Mosque – which was built as a protestant church in 1743 for the French Huguenot community and then became a synagogue in the 19th century before its current incarnation as a mosque. Proof, as if it was needed, that London has always been a very mixed up and…
