A Perspective View of Covent Garden 18th century Frame:gold A coloured aquatint of Vauxhall

A coloured aquatint of Vauxhall Gardens

Clair Wills' wonderful new book brings to life the incredible diversity and strangeness of the migrant experience

Cheapside and the City of London were heavily damaged in the Blitz

George Davison Reid photographed activity along the banks of the River Thames extensively during the late 1920s and early 1930s

The Embankment

A Perspective View of Covent Garden 18th century Frame:gold A coloured aquatint of VauxhallA Perspective View of Covent Garden. A bird's eye view of Covent Garden Piazza, looking West towards St Paul's church. A market is in progress. This is a later, updated, version of Maurer's 1741 plate.