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The Slang Guide to London: St Giles
Jonathon Green continues his eye-popping slang tour of London with a look at St Giles, once described as offering ‘the lowest conditions under which human life is possible’… The first time I saw the...
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The Slang Guide to London: Tyburn
Death-sweats, Paddington spectacles and gallows humour this week, as Jonathon Green continues his slang tour of London with a trip to Tyburn… It is an old place. A crossroads where as we know wicked...
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The Slang Guide to London – Limehouse
From Fu Manchu to Fred Astaire this week, as Jonathon Green continues his slang tour of London by venturing into the East End’s Chinatown and the heady scents of opium and white slavery … It’s not so...
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The Slang Guide to London – The Jago
Jonathon Green continues his slang tour of London by venturing into an area just off Bethnal Green Road known as the “worst street in London”… So which was the worst street in London? Marked in the...
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The Slang Guide to London – Black Mary’s Hole
© The Trustees of the British Museum Jonathon Green continues his slang tour of London with a look at the chequered history of Black Mary’s Hole… We have been to Clerkenwell before and here we are...
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The Slang Guide to London – Holywell Street
Jonathon Green continues his slang tour of London with a trip to the ‘specialist’ bookshops of The Backside of St Clements… All gone now. What you’re looking at above is the Australian High Commission...
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Gustave Doré’s Inaccurate Victorian London
Nige on the French artist whose largely inaccurate drawings fixed an idea of Victorian London in the popular consciousness… The dark, dramatic engravings of Gustave Doré have done a lot to fix our...
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1860: The Year Modern Britain Was Born?
From football to fish and chips, from tabloids to faithlessness – a remarkable number of facets of modern British life can be traced to the ‘Age of Equipoise’, and specifically to the year 1860,...
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Methodism: A Common Cause of Lunacy
How Methodism leads to Bedlam… misfortunes, troubles, disappointments, grief…206 family/heredity………………………………………………115 fevers…………………………………………………………….110 religion and methodism………………………………….90...
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A Jolly Day Out in London
Steerforth’s ‘Photographs Found in Books’ series returns with an enchanting record of a 1930s school trip … This is another gem rescued from being thrown into a skip. It’s a project book, compiled by...
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