In actor Olivia Cooke’s east London town house, designed by Studio LK , a custom sofa and rug sit with a Louis Sognot armchair, an Andrew Pierce Scott cocktail table, and a 1960s floor lamp.

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London tree guy and occasional Londonist contributor, Paul Wood, has a new book out and it's all about, well, trees. The trees featured in Tree Hunting: 1,000 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland ...

Poverty has always been a complex challenge, but our views on it have evolved dramatically over time. For centuries, poverty was seen as a fact of life, with charity considered a moral duty ...

When Wayne Ashcroft had the chance to buy and transform a former Victorian workhouse into six luxury homes, he didn’t hesitate – despite knowing that it would mean his family living in a ...

The story broke in August 1845 when it was revealed that the diet provided by the drunken master of the Andover workhouse was so meagre that inmates were reduced to gnawing the rancid bones — some ...

In Victorian London, the proprietors of anatomical displays were sometimes prosecuted for indecency. For many years, the Hunterian museum was open only to medical professionals, “learned men ...

Stephen Hay, The Making of a Late-Victorian Hindu: M. K. Gandhi in London, 1888-1891, Victorian Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 74-98 ...