Looking from afar across to Shoreditch, the Theatre would have been an incredible sight: a “gorgeous playing-place erected in the Fields”, noted one contemporary. Playgoers – who had grown up watching plays outside inns or on village greens – would have seen nothing like it before. Opened in […]
Parts of the City of London can resemble a ghost town at the weekend when offices – along with many pubs and shops – are closed. While a number of new residential developments have sprung up in recent years, the square mile is largely regarded a business district […]
Hackney is not a place that most people would think of heading if they were on the search for Tudor country mansions. But jump off the Overground train at Hackney Central station and history enthusiasts won’t be disappointed. After just a 10 minute walk you arrive at Sutton […]
Jack the Ripper stares you in the face as you emerge from Tower Hill Underground station. He’s not there in person of course, but in the form of advertising boards for nightly tours that charge around the East End sites associated with the infamous murderer and his victims. […]