The gang that terrorised Georgian London!
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
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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…
Monkey versus Dog in fight to the death
Jacco Macacco was a small monkey that was famous in Georgian London for putting up a decent fight against any dog set against it
Dog dung used to make books look good
The most gross job in Victorian London was that of the Pure Finder who collected dog dung to sell to tanneries as part of the leather making process
Victorian slang for beginners!
Tony McMahon teaches you London Victorian slang so you could learn how to survive in the London of Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria
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
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
Politicians lynched by the London mob
The London mob has a deserved reputation for violence and has lynched several politicians over the centuries
Priests and prostitutes in Southwark
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