Bentham's skeletal "auto-icon" watches students in UCL's hallways. In life Bentham believed that surveillance could make us behave better. His dream of a Panopticon penitentiary was never realised. Instead he became the first man to campaign against transportation to Australia.

Simpsons of Piccadilly. The elegant premises for Simpsons mens outfitters, designed by Joseph Emberton in Portland stone and internally arranged by Laszlo Mohloy-Nagy.

Step into a Sunday School 'Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition' from 1889 in Peckham to hear a rather disparaging newspaper report on the children's exhibits.

Discover the work of Miranda and Octavia Hill's Kyrle Society, and their mission to 'bring beauty home to the people' in the late-nineteenth century.

Discover the Spitalfields 'Home of Industry' where flowers were sent by train from the countryside to be distributed by the women of the Bible Flower Mission amongst the poor of the East End.

Join me on a visit to a working people's flower show, held in the quiet square of Dean's Yard in Westminster in 1883, to find out why window-gardening was encouraged by social reformers in the Victorian era.

What do the 'Housing of the Working Classes Act' of 1885, the Chubb Patent Lock and Safe Company, and a 'laughing jackass' have to do with one another? Find out in this short Viewpoint...

Visit the window-gardens of nineteenth century Herbrand Street to explore why an experimental flower show in 1860 was thought to be a solution for the poor living conditions of the working-class parishioners of St George's, Bloomsbury.

This viewpoint will explain how the structure’s inclusion in an ugly buildings competition brought to a head a larger “crisis of the English avant-garde,” to the lament of one prominent architectural critic.

The Ring was one of the hubs of working-class sporting life in London, encapsulating the allegiances and rivalries of sport in the capital.