Diocese of London United Kingdom This Grade II listed arts and crafts building is still home to Toynbee Hall, one of the world's first university settlements.

Diocese of London United Kingdom From October 1739 until June 2020 there was a statue of the philanthropist after whom the hospital is named at the centre of this Georgian courtyard. So why did it become a point of controversy?

London United Kingdom Where today we find Chanel, between 1964 and 1970 we would have found the first Christian Aid shop. This was not, however, quite like the charity shops so familiar to us now.

London United Kingdom Between 1870 and the end of the 1930s, this was the site of the first known fundraising shop in London's history. It was, however, rather different from the charity shops we know today.

Diocese of London United Kingdom Originally one of the main Roman roads of Londinium this main city street was inhabited during the medieval period by many immigrants from Lombardy in northern Italy and in time hosted many early coffee houses, the Post Office and eventually became famous as a centre for banking.

Diocese of London United Kingdom In medieval times, Eastcheap was the main meat market in the City of London, with butchers' stalls lining both sides. It was also the location of Falstaff's Boar's Head Inn, featured in Shakespeare's plays and the home to Nehemiah Wallington, the woodturner whose notebooks reveal a great deal about life in the seventeenth-century city.

Ealing Broadway United Kingdom This battle took place in November 1642 near the village of Turnham Green in the first few months of the English Civil War. The Parliamentary army, along with many ordinary Londoners rallied to prevent the forces of King Charles I take the city in an important strategic victory.

Diocese of London United Kingdom Cheapside takes its name from ‘chepe’, a Saxon word for a market and was a main thoroughfare of London for much of the city’s history possibly from the time of Alfred the Great. In this street was seen trade of all kinds. Eventually it became an avenue for royal processions, such was its importance.

Diocese of London United Kingdom This tavern in Lothbury was once a headquarters of the Levellers, radicals who during the English civil who proposed changes to the political and legal systems in what are today seen as early calls for democracy.

former Roman catholic diocese of London United Kingdom From the early sixteenth centuries the area around St Pauls Cathedral including the famous Paternoster Row, were the centre of publishing trade in England. Printers and booksellers working from shops here spread ideas and information across the country.