Chief Yeoman Warder Alan Kingshott popped into the Breakfast Show studio to help launch 500 Words 2017, and shared some fascinating stories about the Tower. Alan brought in some props to give ...

One of the city's most iconic and most visited tourist destinations, the Tower of London is brimming with history and legend. Built by William the Conqueror, the site grew over the centuries to ...

Built as a fortress by William the Conqueror beginning in the 1070s, the UNESCO-listed Tower of London is one of the city's most iconic landmarks. Once a palace for monarchs, a formidable state ...

It was a display that moved the nation and the monarch, a century on from the First World War. More than five million people, including Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, saw the sea of 'poppies ...

This is the oldest skull of a Barbary lion found in the UK. The lion was part of the royal zoo in the Tower of London 700 years ago. Workmen digging in the old moat around the Tower of London in 1937 ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a new commemorative display of ceramic poppies will be installed at the heart of the Tower of London. Nearly 30,000 of the original ...