The Queen is celebrating her 90th birthday.  Britain’s longest serving monarch greets thousands of well-wishers and receives the love of a...

Simon Meyer, the St Mary-le-Bow Tower Master. Photo: PA / The Telegraph There are many people who claim to be a Cockney but, are th...

This picture shows the original grave where Karl Marx was buried together with other four people including his wife Jenny von Westphalen, t...

Piccadilly, c. 1900

"Do you hear the people sing?" Of course you do, because more than half a million people  are singing this weekend "thank yo...

Holborn Circus, 1910

To rent a house in London is becoming unachievable for most of the population. Nowadays, tenants cannot afford to rent a room and they are ...

Brewers Quay; 1930's

There are three things that cannot be missed at a wedding: the groom, the bride and the cake.  In 1840, Queen Victoria decided to wear...

Pageantmaster Court, Ludgate Hill, c. 1930

Ask to any Londoner child if they have ever seen a bear, a sheep or a pig. Probably they know about these animals and they will tell you a...

Today, London woke up with great news. The Duchess of Cambridge, in less than three hours after she arrived at the Lindo Wing, has ...

More than 38,000 people have taken part in the London Marathon last Sunday. Since the first time that it took place, on 29 March 1981, arou...

Everybody who visits London this weekend have the opportunity to walk on Spanish ground without leaving the country. How is that possible? ...

If diversity is wealth these are the ten richest cities in the world: Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Sydney, Paris, Los Angele...

Simon Hogan, Ian Rictor, Roy Underwood and Lennard Walker. Spinifex people. Pukara, 2013 The sixth largest country in the world, with 7...

Shakespeare in love, a 1998 film, was directed by John Madden and starred by Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow. It was one of the most suc...

Harley Street, circa 1890. Photo by Hulton Archive/ Getty Images

Cheapside, 1890

Everything is possible in London's Spring, even if the weather is a little bit cold. The stress, tourists and pedestrians have to share...

The ancient Greece spanned from the 9th Century BC until the end of Antiquity, around 600 AD. It was one of the most incredible and prolifi...

Picadilly Circus, 23rd July, 1948

We are in March but it looks like "winter is coming".   The Tower of London is the perfect set to perform a battle, a treaso...

It has been 30 years since Richard Curtis and Lenny Henry founded Comic Relief . Maybe they did not think about the importance of that deci...

It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their h...

This glove belongs to Michael Jackson's Statue. The sculpture is 2.3 metres high and it is made of resin and plaster. Mohamed Al ...

Baileys was created by Gilbeys of Ireland and it was introduced to the international market as the first Irish Cream on 1974. The idea was...

Regent Street, circa 1890 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Covent Garden. c. 1890 (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company / Getty Images)

The 19th of February was the Chinese New Year celebration. This means that from now we are living in the Year of the Sheep . This animal ...

It has been a year already, and tomorrow it will be, again, Pancake Day. What does that mean? It means that we need to clear our cupboards ...

Not always the artists and their work are well recognized. The best example from Art History is one of Michelangelo's masterpieces, the...

In this photograph, taken in the late 1920s, we can see a nurse next to the Marie Stopes birth control clinic. Marie Charlotte Carmichael S...

A family of pink pigs has captured the hearts of children from UK and all over the world since the first show was aired the 31st of May, 20...

The statue of Robert Peel. Cheapside. c.1890.  (Photo by William England / London Stereoscopic Company / Getty Images)

Christmas is over, all the mince pies and puddings are not in the table anymore but on our hips, the weather is horrible, our bank acco...

London has the flavours, sounds and laughs of Spanish because Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (known as Mujeres al borde de un ...

If there is a brand that knows how to do clever and great marketing campaigns that is Coca Cola. It is not only a drink, it is a way to liv...

The 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge said that "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cher...

Platform 9¾ at  King’s Cross Everyone knows that London is one of the best settings for cinema. Awarded films, successful TV series and...

On the 12th of December you can join the woolly revolution. The only thing that you have to do is to wear a Christmas Jumper and make a don...

Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Road, c. 1920

Winterville opened today, for the very first time, at Victoria Park . This new town can be a great alternative to Winter Wonderland. It has...

It was 58 years ago when Michael Bond bought a bear, as a present for his wife, at Selfridges . At this time nobody knew it but on that Chr...

On Friday 21st November,  begins again  Winter Wonderland , one of the main attractions in London. The Christmas market will be open from 1...

At 5 pm, coinciding with the switching on the lights in Regent Street , Christmas officially started in London. From 12 am to 6 pm, the str...

Next Tuesday will be a day to remember and to honor all the members of the army who have died while they were in duty. The Poppy Day.  ...

Today we are celebrating one of the most important festivities in the UK and some countries of the Commonwealth. Since the Gunpowder Pl...

If last summer we went all over the city looking for 50 book benches , this month we have a new tour commissioned by Transport for London ...

At the beginning of September, coinciding with the launching of the inaugural Totally Thames season, HippopoThames, the 21 metre wooden ri...