Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and pre...

Stephen Halliday, one of the foremost authorities on the Victorian city, tells the story of how p...

This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs ...

The history of how the people and religion have shaped these buildings over 2000 years. Explore t...

The story of London's main line railway beneath the streets, from its origins in the nineteenth c...

The Little Book of Crime and Punishment is a repository of fascinating, obscure, strange and ente...

A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures ben...

London is a city of markets: markets in meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, money, insurance, shipping...

A collection of strange laws, heroic deeds, surprising revelations and other quirky stories that ...

Our Troubles with Food

A guide to the literary history of London, previously published as 'From 221b Baker Street To Pla...

A vivid account of the life and work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer who designed and buil...