During the Victorian era, the worst London fogs occurred in the 1880s and ’90s, most often in November. Yet as early as 1853, in the opening pages of “Bleak House,” Charles Dickens refers to ...

Between 1899 and 1901, Monet painted nearly 100 views of London, mesmerised not by its architecture or people, but by its atmosphere – more precisely, by its pollution. His canvases depict the city ...

Today, we think of London fog mainly as the atmospheric backdrop to late-Victorian ghost stories and the adventures of Sherlock Holmes: "It was a September evening and not yet seven o'clock ...

“Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian parties ... “Dull dances in London and comic dances in Scotland and disgusting dances in Paris -- all the succession and repetition of massed ...

London’s greatest investigator has arrived! Here’s the lowdown on the mystery series that injects Victorian London with a delicious detective-duo twist. Find out how to watch, who’s in the ...

A foggy night in Victorian London ... just the sort of cover the murderous Jack the Ripper would have craved. Even as we prepare for the artificial frights of Halloween, a host of sleuths are ...

The famous London fog was actually the result of pollution ... newer forms of heating had improved the air quality in the city. In Victorian times, when nearly everyone had a coal fire going ...