Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Notes
Chat
Past Futures
Five Things
Historical Maps
Archive
About
The Little Things of the South Bank
9 curiosities to seek out when on London's South Bank.
Feb 13
•
Matt Brown
35
10
7
An Historic Walk Along the North Bank of the Thames
A route that wasn't possible a few weeks ago...
Feb 11
•
Matt Brown
93
24
12
Five... daytrips through Tudor history
Just a couple of hours and five centuries from present-day London
Feb 7
•
Lydia Manch
27
5
4
A Little Bit of Fun With London Street Signs
Have I got Mews for you?
Feb 6
•
Matt Brown
40
22
3
Art on the Tube, and What it can Tell us About London History
Underground art.
Feb 4
•
Matt Brown
68
19
13
Most Popular
View all
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
Dec 10, 2025
•
Matt Brown
400
76
67
Extreme Acts of Psychogeography
Nov 1, 2024
•
Matt Brown
159
20
20
London's Oldest Map, Now in Colour: Part 2
Jan 17, 2024
•
Londonist
and
Matt Brown
113
13
15
The Forgotten Tudor Hall of North London
Jun 25, 2025
•
Matt Brown
99
42
12
5 Historical Quirks in...
See all
5 Historic London Buildings You Can Explore For Free
Four of which you can just walk into without booking.
Jan 12, 2024
•
Londonist
and
Matt Brown
5
5 Historic Quirks to Spot in... Paternoster Square
Oddities in the shadow of St Paul's.
Jan 5, 2024
•
Londonist
and
Matt Brown
3
5 Historic Quirks to Spot in... Celebration of '24
A New Year's list of oddities around the number 24.
Dec 29, 2023
•
Londonist
1
Historical Maps
See all
When Marylebone was All Fields: 1746 in Colour
The latest instalment of the coloured-in John Rocque map.
Jan 14
•
Matt Brown
83
25
12
How Good is AI at Making London Maps?
Answer: poor.
Jan 2
•
Matt Brown
49
23
2
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
Dec 10, 2025
•
Matt Brown
400
76
67
Recent posts
See all
100 Years of TV: Channel Hopping the History
"There's only one place we can go... it's round the corner, in Soho"
Jan 30
•
Matt Brown
27
14
1
Anatomy of a Cartoon: March of the Intellect, by William Heath
A touch of futurology from 1829.
Jan 28
•
Matt Brown
42
14
5
Five... London transport posters from the golden age of Art Deco
Energy, vitality, luxury.
Jan 25
•
Tabish Khan
and
Londonist
29
3
3
Londonist: Time Machine
A geeky, cheeky, thrice-weekly digest of London's history.
Subscribe
Recommendations
View all 19
London Spy
London Spy
My Life in the Past
Lucy Worsley
Letters of Note
Shaun Usher
Vittles
Vittles
Londonist: Keys to the City
Londonist
Londonist: Time Machine
Subscribe
About
Archive
Recommendations
Sitemap
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts