No one who has ever paged through "London Labour and the London Poor," Henry Mayhew's shocking 4-volume expose of the miserable social conditions of the lower classes in Victorian England, would ever ...

At the beginning of London Cries, the ghostlight in the Irondale Center’s decrepit ballroom of a space flickers and fades, allowing specters of the 19th-century poor to emerge from the shadowy corners ...

I approached the London season with suspicion, because it sounds like a bit of a GCSE idea ("Hey, London's a really big place. Let's make loads of programmes about how big it is, and how long it's ...

The street vendors of early modern London were a practical sort. They’d sooner have a penny than a portrait. But by the late 16th century, their likenesses were quite the commodity. It was then that ...

Clattering through tunnels without daylight, Hither and thither they run up and down, Beneath the streets of London Town." The above shows an extract from London Town by Ellen Houghton and Thomas ...

Continuum this week presents a program called The Cries of London, referring to the short lyrical and musical calls of merchants hawking their products and services at the beginning of the 17th ...