They are photos of a lost world, of an East End of London without its skyscrapers or sharp-suited businessmen. One shows a butcher flogging chickens as bulldozers hard at work behind him, typifying ...
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 ...
FEW names so instantly conjure up the hansom cabs, gaslights and tawdry streets of Victorian London as that of the mythical cape-shrouded figure armed with a long knife and carrying a black gladstone ...
In the heart of the modern East End of London, a Victorian slum has been recreated and a group of 21st-century people are moving in. Michael Mosley joins them to tell the extraordinary story of how ...