In 1780, the French writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier compiled an essay comparing his home city of Paris, and its European neighbour, London. "Neighbour and rival, inevitably London furnishes the ...

Dating back to 1710, the Grade II–listed residence was once home to a builder working on Kensington Palace—and it pairs period details with a sleek glass addition.

Liss's 18th-century London is one that James Bond would have felt at home in. The action is fast and full of surprises -- so many, in fact, that the suspension of disbelief is sometimes sustained ...

The swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel ...