If you think your commute into London is bad as you're shoved up against someone's armpit on a sweaty train, spare a thought for our predecessors in Victorian times. For many people going to work ...

Ghost hoaxing' was common on the Victorian goldfields from the late 1860s, till around the beginning of the 1900s. The story goes that in the mid-1800s, Jack stalked the streets of London wearing ...

IN the 1800s Londoners had to contend with two very ... was this very vibrant bare-knuckle boxing scene in the East End of London and there was also the emergence of what we now recognise as ...

This series of theirs was set in London in 1887 and followed ‘a group of Victorian detectives including Detective Inspector ...

‘Victorian London was the capital of the world,’ explains Knight. ‘It was a place where you literally had to fight to survive. It was just a place with a lot of mad stuff going on.

revealing the butcher who terrorized Victorian London’s East End in the late 1800s was a 23-year-old Polish immigrant named Aaron Kosminski — who died in a mental institution in 1919.