NoMad London hides a secret museum inside its historic walls—the Bow Street Police Museum, offering a rare glimpse into the ...

After the Old Master focused gallery trail was forced to wind down due to lack of funding, a new visitor engagement effort is ...

In a brightly lit laboratory above the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), conservator ... to the late Victorian, at the end of the 19th century. The discoveries also include the bones of ...

Highwaymen increased in number in the early 18th century. They targeted stagecoaches ... Black Bess, from London to York in record time to provide himself with an alibi for a crime.

Executions continued to be carried out publicly in the 18th century, mostly outside Newgate Prison in London. After 1783, a swifter method of execution was used, with the removal of a platform ...

An exhibition at London’s Wallace Collection is exploring the art of timekeeping by showcasing five breathtaking clocks designed by André-Charles Boulle, the famed 18th-century Parisian craftsman.

London's history is pockmarked with death and disease, from the infamous Great Plague of the 1600s to the devastating impacts of smallpox in the 18th Century. Alongside the well-known health disasters ...