Category: London

Every summer brings one particular sultry Sunday in northeast London when Carter’s Steam Fair rolls into town, and history turns back one notch on the dial. It only lasts a weekend, before the whole shebang packs up and the …

Viewed through the canon of classic horror cinema, it’s clear that London has horror in its blood, and blood on its streets, and on its walls, and even splashed around the tiled floors of the Underground. The British capital …

Walk down any street in London circa 1870 and a man without a beard would have been the rare exception. The capital, and the nation, was gripped by a beard obsession, as Victorian males aped the soldiers returning from …