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On Great Queen Street, the promised secret is difficult to find. The doors are open. Visitors enter the vestibule. Aprons, jewels, snuffboxes, books and meeting records sit in public cases.…
Imagine an April morning in 1900. Shops are opening on Blythe Road, omnibuses move across West London, and upstairs in an ordinary building people are disputing possession of the keys to…
London, April 1934. At the Royal Courts of Justice, a man who has called himself the Great Beast 666 for decades asks twelve jurors to believe that the phrase “black magician” unjustly…
Picture Piccadilly in 1895. Among shop windows, carriages and top hats stands an Egyptian temple that was never a…
Fleet Street—not a film set filled with decorative fog, but a narrow commercial artery carrying printers, lawyers, messengers, sailors and food sellers. Old St Dunstan’s church projects…
Old Ford, February 1838. In the evening, a man at the gate calls himself a police officer. He asks for a light, saying that Spring-heeled Jack has been caught in the lane. Eighteen-year-old…
March 2013. Beneath the western roadway of Charterhouse Square, Crossrail is preparing a shaft for ground-treatment works. Only metres from offices, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and modern…
Imagine Aldgate in September 1665. Beyond the City’s eastern gate live porters, craftspeople, sailors, traders and families renting crowded rooms. Red crosses appear on doors. Watchmen…
It is a February night in 1666. Snow lies across a tiny City churchyard. Samuel Pepys walks through it with his wife for the first time since the epidemic. Beneath them are neighbours…
Death on Redcross Way has no marble angel. It speaks through cheap beads, handwritten names, ribbons and small objects left by people who often do not know who lies beneath them. Beyond the…
Search for Bedlam in central London and the city offers three ghosts. Beneath Liverpool Street Station is the site of a small medieval priory. Near Finsbury Circus, you can imagine the…
A young crocodile has been removed from its egg but remains attached by its umbilical cord. Nearby are bones, organs, vessels, instruments and drawings. The jars do not contain “monsters.”…
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