former Roman catholic diocese of London United Kingdom The Dominican monks, colloquially called the Blackfriars because of their black habits, had an impressive monastery after which this area of London is named. After intense involvement in Henry VIII's love life, they were dissolved along with all of England's other orders.

former Roman catholic diocese of London United Kingdom The oldest extant guildhall London belongs to the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. Originally a part of the Grocers' Guild they split off to form their own society as ideas about medicine changed.

former Roman catholic diocese of London United Kingdom 41 Cloth Fair is the oldest extant house in the city of London. Find out how it managed to survive the great fire of London because of its location, and tells us a lot about home life in early modern and medieval London.

Diocese of London United Kingdom Following a rise of piracy from the fifteenth century, those pirates captured were hung at the Execution Dock, and then had their bodies displayed as a warning at Blackwall Point.

Diocese of London United Kingdom No one knows exactly where the London Stone came from, but in the medieval and early modern periods it was an important symbolic place, as well as a way of marking out addresses in the city.

London United Kingdom After the bubonic plague became endemic in Europe, Londoners came up with ways to protect their community against infection, such as the Pesthouse.

Diocese of London United Kingdom When London Bridge was the only available way of crossing the river, a thriving trade of ferrymen existed, to take revellers back and forth across the Thames to the red light district of Southwark.

Diocese of London United Kingdom The oldest extant church in the City of London, St Helen's Bishopsgate was part of a dense network of parishes aimed at serving the medieval Christian community.

Diocese of London United Kingdom Once built into the site of the original London Bridge, St Magnus the Martyr has had more than one St Magnus as it's patron saint because of changing interests in history.

Diocese of London United Kingdom The George is a seventeenth-century coaching inn that stands near the site of the old Tabard Inn, where the Canterbury Tales begins. Travel back and forth between London and Canterbury happened for religious reason as well as pleasure.