The London underground railway, the first in the world opened with great fanfare in 1863. This is an account of the first railway murder that occurred only a year later in 1864 and created a great sensation as Londoners realised that they were not safe on this form of public transport. The first ...
The great thing about them is that they transform cheap cuts of meat into meltingly tender cold-weather comfort food – and they are practically impossible to mess up. Whatever is left over can be frozen for a ready meal later on or thinned with some good-quality stock and blitzed into a hearty so...
For more than a thousand years a gaol had stood on the site of the City’s westernmost gate, a mere ten minutes’ walk from the Bank of England and St Paul’s Cathedral. It was a monstrous building designed to call forth horror, its scowling bulk, pitted granite flanks and chilling, iron-spiked wall...