Samuel Pepys’s school has stopped using his name after he was accused of “abusive and exploitative” behaviour towards women.

Samuel Pepys’s school has stopped using his name after he was accused of “abusive and exploitative” behaviour towards women.

Lady Olivia was voted Pepys's replacement by 42% of the school's 1,900 pupils and staff members, putting her ahead of Mary ...

When plague swept through London in 1665, killing tens of thousands, people did not simply pray or flee. They checked the numbers. New research by Karen McBride, an accounting professor at the ...

New research by the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners used published death figures to make daily, life or death decisions, reshaping how governments ...

In the Elizabethan era, if you wanted to head north from London, it’s likely you would have taken the Great North Road. Stretching up from Highgate through to Barnet and Hatfield, and on to Stevenage, ...

A shocking video shows a fire breaking out on a London bus, forcing terrified passengers to flee. The footage appears to show the rear of the bus catching fire in the middle of a residential area on ...

Passengers were forced to flee a bus after it burst into flames mid-journey, with two fire engines called in to extinguish the blaze. An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the fire.

Ghetts, a British rapper and actor in "Supacell," has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for the hit-and-run death of a student in London.

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