The only guide to London's literary landmarks is updated for this new edition
The story of London’s main line railway beneath the streets, from its origins in the nineteenth c...
The Little Book of Crime and Punishment is a repository of fascinating, obscure, strange and ente...
London is a city of markets: markets in meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, money, insurance, shipping...
Newgate Prison was the largest, most notorious and worst of London prisons. Stephen Halliday tell...
A vivid account of the life and work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer who designed and buil...
London's Underground is one of the best-known and most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Vic...
How the Victorians struggled to overcome diseases such as cholera, typhoid and scarlet fever in t...
“Halliday is a pass master at assembling golden nuggets of fact . . . amusin...