Each year, the Yale Center for British Art’s “Art in Focus” initiative provides select Yale undergraduates with the opportunity to research, curate, install, and present an exhibition of works under ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I roam the world for epic nature, urban areas and road trips. Anyone who visits London for the first time is sure to concentrate ...

The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium. In 1875, a group called the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London formed in ...

The humble dustman, the collector of household refuse, was a familiar figure on London's streets. In the early 1800s, he wore 'a fan-tailed hat, loose flannel jacket, velveteen red breeches, worsted ...

The location of filth mattered in Victorian London. In 1879, during the hearing of a nuisance case that emanated from a candy factory, it was noted that “what would be a nuisance in Belgrave Square ...

In the 19th century, London was the capital of the largest empire the world had ever known — and it was infamously filthy. It had choking, sooty fogs; the Thames River was thick with human sewage; and ...

A 301-year-old London townhouse that moonlights as a boutique hotel and swanky photoshoot location is on the market for £2 million (US$2.84 million). Built in 1717, the four-story house is on Mile End ...