London has always been a hub for photography. The very first photo of London was taken in 1839, only a matter of weeks after the French government revealed the secrets of daguerreotype photography in ...

Two Victorian townhouses in London are going viral after a TikTok revealed they are hollow façades built to hide a 19th-century railway cutting beneath the street.

Whether you’re a Victorian history nerd or just captivated by the period setting of Miss Scarlet and The Duke, you’ll want to take a deeper look at everyday life in 1882 London—when dubious medicines ...

Those looking for a true mix of historic and contemporary should look no further than this beautifully and painstakingly restored Victorian home in Highgate, London. The residence, with its Victorian ...

This former Victorian water tower in the London borough of Lambeth has been turned into an architecturally impressive single-family home. The transformation of the Grade II-listed structure, built in ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Newnham-Davis is little known today but, after serving in ...