Step inside a sixteenth-century house in Smithfield.

For more than 800 years, in frosty weather the frozen Thames played host to spectacular festivals.

Join the crowds at a royal joust in honour of Elizabeth I.

For Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway the clocks of Big Ben and St Margaret’s, Westminster do more than just tell the time.

In Elizabethan London, Richard Walweyn’s trousers were a literal crime of fashion.

Flames are racing towards your house: what do you save? In 1666, Samuel Pepys prioritised his cheese.

Polymath and rogue Thomas Gemini peddles his wares in Tudor Blackfriars.

Scholars fleeing the burgeoning Nazi Party find a safe haven in 1930s Bloomsbury.

From a mechanical garden to an automatic tea-table, in the late eighteenth century you were bound to find something extraordinary at Merlin’s Museum of Mechanical Amusements.

The parish and burial grounds of St Giles, Cripplegate now the Barbican.