In the wake of plague, Civil Wars and the Great Fire of London, the city became engrossed in the details of a murder in Covent Garden at the end of the seventeenth century.

In 1791, workmen at the Tower of London discovered extensive historical graffiti left by prisoners - including the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey - centuries earlier.

Although Wellclose Square Prison is now lost to history, the wooden walls of one of the cells survive at the Museum of London and are covered in graffiti documenting the distant voices of the incarcerated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In 1786, the bon ton flocked to Privy Gardens in Whitehall to attend a vast auction of curiosities, art works and antiquities owned by the deceased Duchess of Portland

This viewpoint explains why Nelson Mandela has a bust on the South Bank and the large-scale protests and festivals held in his name.

The City of London Anti-Apartheid Group organised a continuous picket outside of South Africa's embassy in the late 1980s and ruffled the feathers of both the police and the national Anti Apartheid Movement.

In the late 1970s a group of squatters in Notting Hill declared their independence from the United Kingdom and called upon UN peacekeepers to protect them from eviction. Hear their story here.

Learn about the history and evolution of fried chicken shops in London through the lens of South London's finest.

The Astoria Picture Theatre and Dance Hall opened in 1927, quickly becoming a popular spot for socialising and dancing. The Astoria was built during the British dancing ‘boom’ of the 1910s and 1920s.

How could the launch of a theatre with the most modern, prize-winning stage machinery go so disastrously wrong?