Picture it: London, 1666, a city of narrow streets, timber-framed buildings, and a flickering candlelight. That year, the inevitable happened. A bakery mishap ignited the Great Fire of London, a blaze ...

On this day in 1666, the worst blazes of the Great Fire of London engulfed the City, creating, in the words of Samuel Pepys, “the saddest sight of desolation” he ever saw. Eliot Wilson tells us more ...

A plume of acrid smoke is drifting eastward after a huge explosion rocked the Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead, 20 miles northwest of London, at 6:03 a.m. local time Sunday. The blast was heard ...

He may have lived and died in the 16th century, but French astrologer and seer Michel de Nostradamus’s predictions have continued to fascinate the public for centuries. More than 900 quatrains in his ...

"The archaeological excavations at 1 Poultry included burials associated with the medieval church of St Benet Sherehog, and a post-Great Fire burial ground on the same location, which served the ...