Starting in the 18th century, hear the story of Thomas Coram, the hospital's founder, and the tragic circumstances that led ...

Every visitor to 18th-century London was impressed by the noise and the throngs of people. But the city itself was neither quaint nor clean. Most residents lived in appalling conditions.

Pantomimes, pleasure gardens, bare-knuckle boxing and political upheaval. Christmas in the 18th and early 19th centuries was ...

An 18th-Century cold bath, which may be the only one of its kind in an elite social meeting place known as an assembly room, has been uncovered. The cold bath was filled in with rubble and covered ...