At once familiar and beguilingly abstract, Mimi Mollica’s close-up photography thrusts you into the heart of London’s frenetic East End. In the years leading up to the First World War, posters were used as a vital tool to promote the network. Comprising a diverse selection of short stories from renowned authors such as Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Zadie Smith, this anthology beautifully captures the essence of London through its varied perspectives. Highgate Cemetery is the atmospheric resting place for some 170,000 souls, among them Karl Marx and George Eliot.

The future Elizabeth I, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Walter Raleigh and Guy Fawkes were all ‘sent to the Tower’. Sport is a vital part of London life and public transport plays a crucial role in moving people to cricket, football and rugby matches to the Boat Race, Derby Day, the Olympic Games and even Crufts. Workers excavating a north London churchyard during construction of the St Pancras International Eurostar terminal in 2003 probably expected to uncover some human remains. There are happy stories in here and sad stories, stories that are truly focused on London and others that are focused on the city's inhabitants or an event in time.Each author skillfully captures the essence of London, with its distinctive landmarks, bustling streets, and distinct character, immersing the reader in the city's atmosphere and making it come alive on the pages. It consists of Bentham’s skeleton padded with hay and dressed up, with a wax replica of his head attached. London Stories is a contemporary drama that explores the lives of several families from different ethnic backgrounds.

Kings and queens also locked away their valuables and jewels at the Tower and even today, the Crown Jewels are protected by a garrison of soldiers. And every year, Freemen of the City of London exercise their right to herd sheep over London Bridge.Two smaller ghosts are thought to be the 'princes in the Tower', and the Yeomen Warders even tell a chilling tale of a huge bear who occasionally appears to frighten visitors to death.

Post-war immigration, the swinging sixties, the winter of discontent, the Thatcher years, the Millennium, the Olympics. They were originally part of the Yeomen of the Guard, the monarch’s personal bodyguard who travelled with him.An online exhibition created and curated by the Staff Network Group, reflecting on personal experiences and those of their community in poetry. Like all countries involved during wartime, Britain had to mobilise people and material very quickly for the fighting fronts. Henry III (1216-72) and Edward I (1272-1307) expanded William’s fortress, adding huge 'curtain' (defensive) walls with a series of smaller towers, and enlarging the moat. In each case their portrayals were solid, rounded and very well studied so that their characters became very much alive. But as soon as the war broke out in 1914, Underground posters were also rapidly produced to publicise the war effort.