London

The London Underground is polluted with ultrafine metallic particles small enough to end up in the human bloodstream, according to University of...

250 years ago, over one-fifth of Londoners had been treated for syphilis by their 35th birthday, historians have calculated.

A new exhibition celebrates the City of London's 18th-century female entrepreneurs

Children who regularly walk or cycle to school are less likely to be overweight or obese than those who travel by car or public transport, a new...

How 18th and 19th century London supported its unmarried mothers and illegitimate children – essentially establishing an earlier version of today’s...

Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the mechanism that makes Big Ben chime, and why it needs repairing.

New analysis of the London Tube strike in February 2014 finds that it enabled a sizeable fraction of commuters to find better routes to work, and...

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,” observed the writer Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. In fact, research published today...