A Thousand Blows centres on Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, who arrive in 1880s London and find themselves thrust into the bare-knuckle ...

When we look at paintings, photographs or illustrations of Victorian London, it’s difficult to appreciate just how smelly the city was during the mid-1800s. But what caused it? The answer is not ...

A Victorian home built in the late 1800s for the Hatfield House Estate is on the market. The Laurels, located in Mill Green, Hatfield, was originally constructed for Lord Salisbury's estate engineer, ...

Londoners had to contend with two very different criminal gangs — a group of East End boxers and another of West End shoplifters. But it was the latter’s fists they feared most. The ...

IN the 1800s Londoners had to contend with two very ... was this very vibrant bare-knuckle boxing scene in the East End of London and there was also the emergence of what we now recognise as ...

If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

In 1848 the Illustrated London News published a drawing of the ... The sweets were replaced by small gifts and paper hats in the late Victorian period, and remain in this form as an essential ...

The fifth season of Miss Scarlet and The Duke has kicked off, and one episode will have you questioning the year in which the series is set. To better understand, let's go back to its beginnings and ...