Dan Cruickshank follows in the footsteps of John Stow and John Strype, two of London's greatest chroniclers, to explore one ...

Beneath the floorboards of the Sutton House, several decorative paper cuttings made by schoolgirls have remained intact for ...

An Eight-Story Church Tower in London $5.16 MILLION (3.75 MILLION BRITISH POUNDS)This three-bedroom home is a converted 17th-century church tower near Fleet Street, in the heart of London ...

A 17th-century London home with outdoor space on every level has hit the market for £19.95 million (US$26.6 million). The 4,000-square-foot residence is located on Cadogan Place, ...

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new.

The statue of Sir John Cass, a 17th- and 18th-century merchant and former member of Parliament who also profited from the trade, will be handed over to the Sir John Cass Foundation, which owns it.

Some of the events were corroborated by news pamphlets elsewhere in the country, like in London, where a frost in the winter of 1607-8 led to the Thames freezing over, and city residents, trying ...