This blog post was written by Dr Ruth Slatter and Dr Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH.   Following the announcement of four new VCH projects in 2025, in this blog post Ruth Slatter and Adam...

The History of Parliament Trust is pleased to be a partner in an upcoming workshop, Re-Thinking Westminster Hall: A Place of Meeting and Contest, c.1650-1800.

A talk by Roberto Belo-Rovella, City of Westminster Guide and Lecturer

Crime and punishment in early modern London and the home counties is a rich area of study. Students will encounter not only the changes in the law across the period, but also the very real human stori...

RSMSJ Walk with the Lord Mayor of Westminster | The Residents' Society of Mayfair and St. James's is the official amenity society recognised by Westminster City Council and the Grosvenor Estate for Ma...

Today, we will take a brief look at spring fashionable London dress from two hundred years ago courtesy of the trusty reference book, Ackermann, Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactur…

"In Place"  is an archival and research-led visual project documenting displaced headstones embedded within London’s contemporary public landscape. Before the mid-nineteenth century, many of London’s ...

Discover Dulwich residents who have been at the forefront of the food and drink industry. £5.60 | Online | Book here

Hear about the oldest document in our collection that speaks directly to LGBTQ+ history.

Students have formed a significant part of London’s population since the foundation of its first university in 1826, and Student London centres their experiences in the city’s history. To tell the 200...

The parish of St George Hanover Square encompasses the wealthy neighbourhoods of Mayfair, Belgravia and Pimlico – of which large areas were owned by the Grosvenor Estate and developed by master builde...

Discover the everyday history of medicine in Dulwich. £5.60 | In-person | Book here

Discover the everyday history of medicine in Dulwich. £5.60 | In-person | Book here

Delve into the typology of the houses in East Dulwich, how they have been lived in, why and how they have survived and what is happening to them in the 2020s. £5.60 | Online | Book here

IHR Fellow Maxine Beuret shares the experience of a hands-on ‘Digital Storytelling for Local History’ workshop—a space where stories, history, and memories were brought to life through digital media,…

Amy Walker is a historian specialising in histories of poverty, ‘ordinary people’, and heritage. She completed an Undergraduate degree at the University of Greenwich and a Masters degree at the Instit...

Daisy Mansfield is volunteer with VCH London, focusing on artists in Soho. In this blog, she discusses what we can learn about Soho in the eighteenth-century from the work of the renowned artist and c...