a time when a lot of London's infrastructure that can still be seen today was starting to emerge. Many of the major circuses date back to the early 1800s, but Arnold Circus was built as late as ...

In the early 1800s the only legal source of bodies for dissection was executed criminals, transported straight from the gallows. Yet by 1820 London had four major hospitals offering dissection ...

“He would have known very early on that the real profit was to ... Essex villages into the largest Metropolitan area of outer London.” From 1886 Hitchman owned Chesnuts Farm in Forest Road ...