The undertaker and coffin maker Barnard Feay lived and worked nearby. His premises are long gone but what remains of his business?

The unfortunate tale of William Quarray who was killed by a hearse horse.

Francis Lydia took some ostrich feathers from undertaker John White and was convicted for his crime. How did Lydia take the feathers and what would an undertaker do with them?

Funeral spectators were expected to be mournful and well behaved – Jenkin Evans had other ideas.

The story of Philip Baron, an undertaker who was robbed near the watch house in Holborn.

The porters were an important but criticised part of life in London’s trading community as they distributed messages between individuals. Hear about the arrangements that porters made for the death of a member.

Describing a grand funeral conducted by the Company of Upholders – including the room where the dead man rested at Exeter Change and the organisation of his long journey back home for burial.

William Romaine’s funeral drew a large but peaceful crowd. The spectacular procession to Blackfriars involved many spectators, charity recipients and marshals from the City of London.

Discover Marx’s political activities and impoverished existence and suffering in London's Soho

The story of how coffee of arrived in London, not from Italy or America, but from the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. It tasted bitter, but also of Islam and the East. This is how England learnt to love the 'wine of Islam' and the 'Vertue[s] of the Coffee Drink'.