If you have had enough of sitting on a cramped London Underground train to visit your favourite engineering landmarks, then worry no more. A map showing 12 iconic sites around the centre of London ...

Reigning over London, the Shard is its tallest building, dwarfing earlier icons such as Tower Bridge. More than 70 skyscrapers are under way, promising to redraw the cityscape even further.

Reasonable Blackman, who was of African heritage, was a silk weaver who lived in Southwark, London, with his family. The slave trade in the Tudor period During the Tudor period there was no law ...

Once described as "a sort of British Indiana Jones," University of London scholar Tudor Parfitt, in this interview with NOVA producer David Espar, recounts his fascinating odyssey on behalf of the ...

The other daughters were Margaret Tudor, who married (firstly) James IV, King of Scots and Mary, who married Louis XII of France as her first husband. She died in childbirth in the Tower of London on ...